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RE: SRFI-62
- From: "Dominique Boucher" <dominique dot boucher at nuecho dot com>
- To: <kawa at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 08:29:43 -0400
- Subject: RE: SRFI-62
- Reply-to: <dominique dot boucher at nuecho dot com>
> No specific plans. I guess it would be easy to implement if there
> is a request. http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-implementers.html doesn't
> mention any Schemes that implement it, so it doesn't seem like a
> high priority in terms of compatibility - or functionality.
Many systems implement it. At least the following: Gambit-C, Chicken,
PLT-Scheme, Bigloo, SISC. I wouldn't base my judgment on the link above. It
is clearly not update to date.
> I'm not convinced by the rationale. Yes, commenting out using #;
> is slightly easier than when using #|...|#, but the latter is more
> readable (human-parseable) and safe, I think.
YMMV, of course. But if your editor supports SRFI-62 and highlights comments
in a special font/color, then #; is fairly readable and safe. With #|...|#,
you can easily comment out more stuff than you intended.
Dominique