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Maciej Stachowiak writes:
>
> > (define (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.
I admit to not thinking much about the odd identifier. It is not
unreasonable to be liberal relative to R4RS with respect to characters
allowed in identifiers. ' is not a <delimiter>, so I don't see that
it must terminate an identifier.
> Do the maintainers have a different interpretation or is this a bug?
Don't know. Practically speaking I think it would be easy to change.