Re: reading symbols containing apostrophe

[Taylan Kammer]

On 05.01.2021 00:12, Tom Gillespie wrote:
> In this instance I think the situation is worse than if the standard
> said this was an error. In fact the standard doesn't say this is an
> error at all, which would be better than the current situation.
> Where nearly all other implementations will read 'a'b'c as three
> separate symbols, Guile reads it as a single symbol, silently
> diverging from the standard without warning (until something
> comes crashing down as a result of the difference later).

Hmm, I'm looking at the R7RS-small BNF (haven't checked the other 
standards) and I think you're right.

The apostrophe is a token of its own, along with <identifier>, which I 
think would mean that 'foo'bar should be parsed as four tokens.

It might be worth taking this up with the devel mailing list then.


- Taylan