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Taylor Campbell wrote: > In response to all of the hubbub regarding nested S-expression > comments, I have to wonder: how often do you write such nestings? > Does it really make so much of a difference that you consider 'fixing' > a slightly non-intuitive yet not very common use of S-expression > comments more significant than fundamentally changing Scheme's syntax > to be sensitive to whitespace tokens? Is it really so significant as > to warrant inhibition of simple recursive-descent S-expression > parsers? I don't think it's a huge problem, just somewhat counterintuitive, as I explained to Al. Also, the bit about whitespace was a based on a simple misunderstanding of Scheme lexical elements, already cleared up. -- Bradd W. Szonye http://www.szonye.com/bradd