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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Keith Wright wrote: >In a message called "the discussion so far" >of 2005-07-16, 06:41:51 -0600 >Matthew Flatt writes: > >> For an R6RS definition of "character", I think the editors would >> like to include most things that people wish to write within an >> identifier or string constant. > >This seems to imply that srfi-75 is meant to change the syntax >of identifiers. I am confused on that point. The word "identifier" >does not occur in the text of the srfi, and the word "variable" >occurs only in the hyphenated combinations "variable-width" and >"variable-length". (Are those the same?) When scheme code is read as data, variable names are read as symbols. To change the syntax of symbols without also changing the syntax of variable names is not sensible in the context of a lispy language. Bear