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3 points by aw 4945 days ago | link | parent

and doesn't read the scheme symbol syntax in all its hairiness

I agree with this decision; it's useful to be able to write an arbitrary symbol and have it read back in again as the same symbol from that canonical representation; but we don't need to support every Scheme feature that happens to be visible from Arc...



2 points by rocketnia 4945 days ago | link

we don't need to support every Scheme feature that happens to be visible from Arc...

I agree with that as a principle, but I do sometimes get carried away in my bug reports. ^_^

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