[Jscheme-devel] 08 should not raise an exception (?)

[Geoffrey K. <ge...@kn...>]

I remember seeing a post that in JScheme, 08 is parsed as octal and 
that the 8 would raise an exception.

Later, I was browing r5rs (and found identical text in r4rs), which 
says that (08 13) is an equivalent representation for the list (8 13).

http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/r4rs_5.html#SEC21

Maybe an octal number in JScheme should just use #o ?

Geoffrey

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