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: SRFI-105 (curly-infix-expressions) marker #!srfi-105 ... could guile live with that? Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:12:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <5046FAAA.1050204@gmail.com> 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 1346847178 28859 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2012 12:12:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: svanleent@gmail.com Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 14:13:00 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 1T9ETb-0006ZZ-AK for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:12:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46201 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9ETY-0005B5-DJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:12:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40920) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9ETM-0005Ad-AE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9ETG-0000NL-K6 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:12:44 -0400 Original-Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:54274) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9ETG-0000N4-Db for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:12:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.9.9.130] (helo=fenris.runbox.com) by bars.runbox.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9ETE-0001DK-Hb; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:12:36 +0200 Original-Received: from mail by fenris.runbox.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1T9ETE-00065f-GP; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:12:36 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Received: from [74.96.178.110] by secure.runbox.com with http (uid:258406) (RMM 4.0); Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:12:36 GMT X-Mailer: RMM In-Reply-To: <5046FAAA.1050204@gmail.com> 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:14855 Archived-At: svanleent: > From a pragmatic side, wouldn't it be better to just have a marker like= =20 > #!curly-infix. The number 105 doesn't say much when reading the code,=20 > which is the whole reason for the existence of curly-infixing. There are advantages either direction. I agree with you on the advantage o= f #!curly-infix, which was an alternative recommendation. However, John Co= wan strongly argues that the advantage of #!srfi-105 is that it tells you "= where to go for more information", as well as being more general. > Also, a file extension might change the folding mode. This could by=20 > something like .scmc (scheme-curly). True. We use .sscm for "sweet-scheme", for example. --- David A. Wheeler