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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date :message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ch47BFJZVAKPKDycl7U6gIBb3ovqBUjEXLq2X0H1AwFlpK2q0C+idZatgHhL11li0H bVNyVvWuVUOhDkEqTdjvVAkPlcmTp1X8PAdlvNB3E0Clc1NmraopeKtWEr/Gp/0w/A/k 4mXjgXWUv12j4m2UXdH+Q3PXKsQMjP1dke5KY= Original-Received: by 10.223.113.142 with SMTP id a14mr10123424faq.33.1278836142522; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:15:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([88.103.132.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q8sm6235732faa.10.2010.07.11.01.15.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:15:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83sk3qv922.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:15:01 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:16:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:38366 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: "Drew Adams" >> Cc: <6591@debbugs.gnu.org> >> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:21:04 -0700 >>=20 >> If you now say that you are open to looking >> for another syntax to use, then I would return to my initial suggestion > (but I >> won't argue that it is the only good approach): use `...' to mean > repetitions of >> whatever it follows, in this case a sexp, and thus write (catch TAG > FORM...). >> Introducing a grouping syntax operator (e.g. braces: {}), so the scope of > the >> ellipsis can be controlled - e.g. (A B {C D}... E...) meaning that C D > repeats >> and E repeats. > > Using FORM... is okay, but will need more extensive changes, so I'd > rather not do it. I'd like to simply remove the dots after BODY, and > explain in the text that BODY can consist of one or more forms. > > Does anyone see any reason why keeping the dots in BODY... will have > some didactical importance? Richard? Stefan? Yidong? Well, just look at `when' -- ISTM it has the very same "problem" as discussed here. And it's probably not the only one/two. =C5=A0t=C4=9Bp=C3=A1n