Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!spar!freeman
From: freeman@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Jay Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: R3RS number syntax
Message-ID: <475@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM>
Date: 4 May 88 20:07:47 GMT
References: <880427-173044-6364@Xerox>
Reply-To: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
Organization: SPAR - Schlumberger Palo Alto Research
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In article <880427-173044-6364@Xerox> Pavel.pa@XEROX.COM writes:

>It would really be nice if R4RS were to include a formal semantics for the
>syntax of numbers.

The more I think about it, the more glaring that omission looks.  The
R3 report provides a perfectly adequate BNF for determining whether or
not a particular token represents a number, but provides no hint how
to tell *which* number.

						-- Jay Freeman

<canonical disclaimer -- these are personal opinions only>