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Marc Feeley scripsit: > >The SRFI should explicitly permit implementation-dependent encodings > >and eol-encodings. (XML 1.1 allows CR, LF, CR/LF, NEL=U+0085, and > >LS=U+2028.) > > What do you mean by "explicitly permit"? In general an > implementation can extend an API any way it wishes! The spec is only > a requirement. Well, the informal BNF could be read as requiring that a conforming implementation accept these values and no others. Two sentences of the form "Other values may be accepted by conforming implementations" wouldn't hurt. > It only depends on u8vectors which are common in SRFI 4 and SRFI 66. > SRFI 66 has things that SRFI 4 does not have, and vice versa. I > could add a reference to SRFI 66 though. Fair enough. > I'll add something in the preamble saying: > > The tokens of the form ``foo:'' used in this document will be > called ``keywords''. > On Scheme implementations supporting SRFI 88, these keywords > correspond to the > keyword objects specified in that SRFI. On Scheme > implementations which do not > support SRFI 88, these keywords are symbols. Which is as much as to say that they need to be quoted on non-SRFI-88 systems, as your followup notes. This is always a safe strategy, since a quoted keyword evaluates to itself. Keywords are controversial (if nobody else, I am making controversy about them!), and this otherwise satisfactory SRFI should not, IMHO, depend on their presence. -- In my last lifetime, John Cowan I believed in reincarnation; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in this lifetime, cowan@ccil.org I don't. --Thiagi