Re: [Chicken-users] s-expr reader doesn't allow dot followed by string

[felix winkelmann]

Yes, that's broken. Here is the patch:

(file library.scm)

1820c1820,1824
<                                 (cond [(char-whitespace? c2)
---
>                                 (cond [(or (char-whitespace? c2)
>                                            (eq? c2 #\()
>                                            (eq? c2 #\))
>                                            (eq? c2 #\")
>                                            (eq? c2 #\;) )


Thanks.


cheers,
felix


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:34 +0100, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have not looked at R5RS, so I don't know if it's a bug, but chicken
> is the only scheme (or lisp) I've seen so far that doesn't allow to
> omit whitespace between a dot and a string:
> 
>  #;> '(a ."b")
>  Error: invalid use of '.'
> 
> scm, bigloo, scsh, mzscheme, gambit, rscheme (and sbcl and clisp) all
> accept that.
> 
> Christian.
> 
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