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From: Shriram Krishnamurthi <shriram@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:41:08 -0600 (CST)
References: <199912011926.TAA28460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
oleg@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The more I write about this the more I wonder why I have put that
> phrase about erroneous #,() forms in the first place. I really don't
> want to get into reading exceptions, syntax error reporting and all
> that.
You should. There is no good justification whatsoever for further
propagating the shameful state of Scheme's error reporting semantics.
I agree with Shriram on this issue generally, but not in this
particular case. SRFI-10 says nothing about what #,(<tag> ...)
means for any <tag>, so there isn't much point in saying what it
means for `undefined' tags. With no defined tags and no way
of creating any, what does it mean to say a tag is undefined?
-Richard Kelsey