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non-obvious SCM_EOF_VAL rationale

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From: <tomas <at> tuxteam.de>
To: 38398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38398: non-obvious SCM_EOF_VAL rationale
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:34:04 +0100

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:05:34PM +0000, Zefram via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language wrote:

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> But please don't get sidetracked.  This wasn't a feature request for
> "#eof" [...]

To be fair, you contributed strongly to this side-tracking. By waving
a big red flag:

  "This poor design precludes RnRS specifying read syntax for any
   EOF object [...]"

you yourself drew attention to the underlying issues of the design
instead of keeping things focused to the documentation.

I agree that the doc could improve in this case...

Cheers
-- tomás

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