Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!zurich.ai.mit.edu!markf From: markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Mark Friedman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Concerning standards. Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 17:33:11 GMT References: <6209@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu Followup-To: comp.lang.scheme Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab. Lines: 20 In-reply-to: sra@ecs.soton.ac.uk's message of 17 Jun 91 09:03:10 GMT In article sra@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stephen Adams) writes: I was disappointed to see the definition of scheme identifiers changed to disallow names like `1+'. I also note the Eulisp has made the same bad decision. This is not true in the case of Scheme. The IEEE standard does not disallow names like `1+', it considers them extensions to the syntax of identifiers. The standard does, however, disallow identifiers which would otherwise be parsed as numbers (i.e. `1e3'). -Mark -- Mark Friedman MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab 545 Technology Sq. Cambridge, Ma. 02139 markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu