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Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes

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John Cowan:
> 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.

Wow!  That is awesome research, thank you very much.  I think a summary of that should go into the SRFI rationale (with credit), that's important information.

--- David A. Wheeler