From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New syntax: (: MODULE-NAME VARIABLE-NAME)
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:36:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874qx4oxst.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r808w44f.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "16 Nov 2003 18:38:24 +0000")
Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> I just noticed, though, that there are some other symbols (than :)
> available that don't have other meanings and which could be understood
> as relevant to a module lookup:
Yes, for some reason, I was fixated on ':' and didn't seriously think
about alternatives.
> (@ MOD-NAME VAR-NAME)
> Seems quite good, with @ meaning `at' as in `in the specified module'.
Yes, I like this one best, too. We could use '@' for exported
bindings and '@@' for internal ones.
> (. MOD-NAME VAR-NAME)
> Intuitively very similar to : IMO, but without the keyword issues.
> However, (i) some people might want `.' for the mathematical dot
> (scalar) product; (ii) Guile currently seems confused about whether
> `.' is a symbol:
The dot '.' is a syntactic element when writing and reading improper
lists:
guile> (cons 'a 'b)
(a . b)
It can't really be used as a symbol.
> Of these, I like @ the most.
Yep.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-16 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-13 18:12 New syntax: (: MODULE-NAME VARIABLE-NAME) Marius Vollmer
2003-11-13 19:47 ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-13 20:58 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-14 21:04 ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-15 15:19 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-15 19:22 ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-16 17:31 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-16 18:20 ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-16 18:38 ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-16 20:36 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2003-11-17 20:18 ` Neil Jerram
2003-11-17 21:34 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-16 20:28 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-14 22:09 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-11-15 15:10 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-17 2:00 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-11-17 14:41 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-11-16 8:02 ` Dirk Herrmann
2003-11-17 14:44 ` New syntax (@ MODULE-NAME VARIABLE-NAME) committed Marius Vollmer
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