[Bus-scheme-discuss] Character Literals

[JD Huntington]

I did a bit of looking into how character literals are handled in some  
other versions of scheme, and thought it might be useful for  
discussion. As of now, bus-scheme character literals are parsed into  
one-character strings. However, it appears this is not the case in at  
least one other scheme implementation. Here's a snippet from PLT:

 > (char? #\a)
#t
 > (char? "a")
#f

In bus, the second form is true as well:

 > (char? #\w)
true
 > (char? "w")
true

Thoughts?

As an aside, I think I'll make a lookup for the "control" characters.  
I found a list of these for the guile scheme implementation; does this  
look like an adequate list?
http://gnu.cict.fr/software/guile/manual/html_node/Characters.html

-JD Huntington