[r6rs-discuss] @ should be a valid identifier

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Jul 4 01:25:33 EDT 2008


Shiro Kawai scripsit:

> The 'conformity' of R5RS is pretty vague, I think.
> My understanding is that any upper-compatible lexical extentions
> (which R6RS explicitly prohibits) don't break conformance.  Right?

True.  But this isn't upward compatible:  , at foo and ,@ foo are both instances
of splicing unquote, not of unquoted @foo and unquoted @.

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