[r6rs-discuss] strange escape sequence in string literals

Andy Wingo wingo at pobox.com
Thu Nov 18 15:29:18 EST 2010


Hi Shiro,

On Thu 18 Nov 2010 20:40, Shiro Kawai <shiro at lava.net> writes:

> Check out the errata: http://www.r6rs.org/r6rs-errata.html
> I think your concern is addressed as follows:
>
> "In the production for <string element>, the two occurrences 
> of <intraline whitespace> should have a * after them."

Thanks for the pointer.

I wonder though, what is the purpose of allowing intraline whitespace
before the line ending?

Andy
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