"Final" comments on RRRRS

[Jonathan A Rees <JAR@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>]

    Date: Fri 8 Aug 86 15:20:50-CDT
    From: David Bartley <Bartley%ti-csl.csnet at CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>

    -- Kent Dybvig has asked that the colon (:) be removed from the set of
    extended alphabetic characters (section 2.3).  I agree completely.  My
    joint implementations of Scheme and Common LISP need a reasonable syntax
    for Scheme procedures to refer to symbols in various Common LISP packages.
    Using Common LISP's syntax seems best.

I have no strong objection to this.  It's conceivable that it could be
construed by the uninitiated as an endorsement of read-time packaging,
but I think we should be able to guard against that.

I would like to hear from people who object to the this (Hanson?)
before making the change.  If the screams aren't too loud I'll do it.

    -- I hope that Jonathan will be able to incorporate our proposed number
    syntax.

Sorry, I just won't have time to work on it, and I don't think there's
time for proper review.  If you could prepare the changes in fine detail
(maybe edit the TeX sources yourself), this might be feasible, but a
last-minute change of this magnitude is bound to have problems with it.
Probably it would be best to just include a statement to the effect that
this change is being considered for a future revision of the report.

Jonathan