Re: [Chicken-users] need idea for read-syntax

[Felix Winkelmann]

Am Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:28:39 -0600 hat Peter Keller <address@hidden> 
geschrieben:

> > BTW, what about
> >
> > #] ... [#
>
> Hello,
>
> I definitely wouldn't do that #] ... [#
>
> Imagine if you wrote scheme like this:
>
> )print )+ )- 2 3(((
>
> That would be the same mental effect--"where's that closing
> bracket???".

That's true. But note that we won't nest #] ... [# in this case.
But you point is still valid, of course.

> Also, I didn't like #[ ]# anyway because chicken often makes
> [] and () similar, so I read #[ ]# to be sort of a vector notation
> which only deviates from a #() when I see the ]#, but that could be
> pages later...
>
> How about:
>
> #{ ... }#

Is used already... (as an internal namespace hacking thing).
But that can be changed to something less generic.

Ok, shall it be #{ ... }#, then?


cheers,
felix