GNU bug report logs - #38238
(call-with-input-string "( . 42)" read) => 42

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>

Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:17:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: (call-with-input-string "( . 42)" read) => 42
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 22:15:43 +0100

Guile has a strange syntax extension, as described in the bug title.
It's not explicitly documented AFAIU and it seems it may simply be a
mistake.  We should consider making ( . 42) a lexical error.
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