From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David A. Wheeler" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Adding to guile curly-infix (SRFI 105), neoteric- & sweet-expressions Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:49:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <871uiq4uj6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: dwheeler@dwheeler.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346204992 7725 80.91.229.3 (29 Aug 2012 01:49:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: almkglor@gmail.com, david@aquilenet.fr, guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 29 03:49:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T6XPi-0006rv-V3 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:49:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38728 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6XPg-0001Qg-UH for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44894) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6XPd-0001Pk-Or for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6XPc-0008Vf-St for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:39267) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6XPa-0008OC-VE; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.9.9.130] (helo=fenris.runbox.com) by bars.runbox.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T6XPY-0007C4-MI; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:49:40 +0200 Original-Received: from mail by fenris.runbox.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1T6XPY-0005WG-LH; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:49:40 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Received: from [74.96.178.110] by secure.runbox.com with http (uid:258406) (RMM 4.0); Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:49:40 GMT X-Mailer: RMM In-Reply-To: <871uiq4uj6.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 91.220.196.211 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:14829 Archived-At: Ludovic Court=E8s > Thanks for the note. I must confess Im slightly skeptical about the > chances of success of this approach. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. > However, Im happy youre trying, > and the fact that you take a principled approach, with the various > syntactic extensions defined separately seems great to me. Thanks! > Please let us know what youd need to have it implemented within Guile, > or, even better, send a patch. ;-) Okay! Since we already have it implemented on *top* of guile, I have hopes= that it'll be relatively easy to implement *in* guile. > I think Nala Ginrut once posted a patch that would allow read to > optionally recognize braces as delimiters. I guess thats a starting > point? Yes, { and } as delimiters makes the rest much easier. --- David A. Wheeler