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Radey Shouman <shouman@zianet.com> wrote:
> (define (matrix' m)
> (if (= 2 (array-rank m))
> (transpose-array m 1 0)
> (throw 'not-a-matrix m)))
Testing this, I was startled to discover that Guile accepts a quote in
identifiers. As I read R4RS, (matrix' m) should be equivalent to
(matrix (quote m)), not (#{matrix'}# m) [using Guile's #{}# syntax for
escaped symbols]. Earlier RnRS reports seem to implicitly assume this,
and although R4RS doesn't unambbiguously insist that single quote
binds across whitespace, it does definitely insist that lexically, it
can't be part of a normal identifier.
Do the maintainers have a different interpretation or is this a bug?
- Maciej Stachowiak