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> From: Per Bothner <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> The needed punctuation, space, line-terminator, the 10 decimal
>> digits, and the letters are pretty portable.
> Not between ASCII and EBCDIC.
Yes, I see that EBCDIC is one graphical character short of what would
be needed.
Since EBCDIC support is critical, perhaps R6RS should drop '^' from
the "<special initial>" category.
:-)
-t