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Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes

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FWIW, RScheme uses braces to delimit C code embedded in Scheme code, which works out beautifully in it's context.  That said, a scanner hack could easily mode-switch to SRFI-105 interpretation where needed.

Cheers,
Donovan

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:24 AM, John Cowan <cowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/BracketsBraces shows the meaning
of square brackets and curly braces in my Scheme test suite, which
currently includes 45 implementations.  Only Chibi and RScheme currently
do something special with braces; the other implementations treat them
as either synonyms for parentheses, lexical syntax errors, or identifier
characters.

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