Scheme language standardization process
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/10/2012 10:59 AM, John Cowan wrote: > Ticket #319, which requires that `string->number`, `read`, and the > program reader used by the implementation all impose the same > restrictions, if any, on reading numbers, was adopted by the WG on > the fifth ballot. ;clip: > The rules used by a particular implementation for string->number > must also be applied toread and to the routine that reads > programs, in order to maintain consistency between internal numeric > processing, I/O, and the processing of programs. As a consequence, > the R5RS permission to return #f whenstring has an explicit radix > prefix has been withdrawn. :clip: - current levels of support. > However, as I don't think the WG foresaw this, I'm posting this > advisory to see if there are any comments. It seems to me that the new behavior, and the specification, are both improved by this change, and I would tend to dismiss as an (easily corrected) flaw any failure by implementations to have already done it. Bear -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPhbO9AAoJEAOzWkqOibfNqaAIAIsUiEwBaMHrsxkwflxA1Jto zPuTyJsznmJthnP8dKk6H3aA4EuhA21dFtOoR+Vb4cJ47ZyQuZeQYkrP9Wo0maiG HNXwLFoHyuTW0dhVet86yAz8Qd0/kxmVuFOboupPzfhsLLlhsVNQRp+utKU0aLHt qLfU2E3mBYPMp7kqekO2e1Z3ncj7V+J9FhFnaqNWruNY0oH8aPRPXaR2yN5jQVDe FDRfNxdHc4Vv0mQc95h497sl1M3wC6Dv7p/1bt+obRF/00U6xY857dwg99U/Mctt 7Uf7KwRADe0SucP3FMPAcXrSn7IZOKTJNNLLlCyIJ8Z1Nk0f2xOLpe6JebfofTE= =06nz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@x http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports