Re: #;

From: Ron Garret <rNOSPAMon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:35:44 -0800

In article <4787c30a$0$36367$742ec2ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ray Dillinger <bear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kaz Kylheku wrote:

How silly!

What is the reason why ;# couldn't serve exactly the same purpose?
No new reader macros required.

I think maybe I'm missing something. ;# would introduce a comment
that runs to the next line break whereas the R6RS #; form introduces
a comment that runs to the end of the following datum.

So something like

(+ 1 2 #;bogus 4 5) => 12

whereas something like

(+ 1 2 ;#bogus 4 5) can't even be evaluated; it's incomplete.

I'm not seeing the equivalence here.

Bear

Use #+#:\; then.

:-)

rg
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