From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: =?utf-8?b?zrs=?= the ultimate showcase Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:46:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87bplio4kw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r5uest8f.fsf@gnu.org> <877hw638iu.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252619264 5225 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2009 21:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:47:44 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 23:47:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MlrUO-0002b7-9Z for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:47:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlrUN-0007F7-Li for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlrUF-0007Df-Kx for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlrUA-0007CQ-Ml for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:47:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55579 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlrUA-0007C9-Gh for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44087) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlrUA-0004n7-0w for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MlrU6-0002US-Hl for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:47:18 +0200 Original-Received: from 78.251.101.238 ([78.251.101.238]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:47:18 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by 78.251.101.238 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:47:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.251.101.238 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 24 Fructidor an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volutio?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?n?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F50WPFfR/pcMBR7sYgCh8isD994= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9308 Archived-At: Neil Jerram writes: > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Hey, >> >> Now that we have Unicode, let’s not put it to good use! >> >> (define-syntax λ >> (syntax-rules () >> ((_ formals body ...) >> (lambda formals body ...)))) > > Can it be overridden? Yes. In the end it boils down to ‘module-define!’. > Just in case someone writes an algorithm where they'd really like to > have λ as a variable? One can always use ‘λ’ or ‘lambda’ as a local variable name: (let ((λ 2)) (+ λ 3)) > If the answer to the above is Yes, definitely. Cool, let’s do it! :-) (Then we’ll want “’” for ‘quote’, “‘” for ‘quasiquote’, etc. etc.) Thanks, Ludo’.