[R6RS] draft Unicode SRFI

Matthew Flatt mflatt
Fri Jul 1 11:03:49 EDT 2005


At Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:58:55 -0400, Marc Feeley wrote:
> I think we should iron out the differences, or give a better  
> rationale for departing from the C syntax.  I propose:
> 
>    1) drop \e (and to be consistent, #\esc)
>    2) keep \' \v \a
>    3) add \?
>    4) require 8 hex digits after \U  (I think \U will occur very  
> infrequently
>       in code, so we might as well make it compatible with C99,  
> Python and other
>       languages).  The value still has to fall in 0..#x10ffff.

This sounds right to me.

Matthew



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