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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: "Alex Shinn" <alexshinn@gmail.com>,
	"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@chbouib.org>,
	guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: ..1 and ...+
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:37:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vd57b6lv.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)

Hello,

It appears that Racket's syntax-parse macro system writes `..1' as
`...+'. It seems to me to be a better spelling of match's `..1', and
better embodies the "0, 1, many" aspect of counting.

  http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/syntax-patterns.html?q=...+#(form._((lib._syntax/parse..rkt)._......+))

I think I'm going to recommend ...+ as the preferred spelling of this
concept, and eventually add it to Guile's syntax-rules / syntax-case
system.  Your match system might want to add it too, as a synonym of
..1.

Just a thought, and an idle one at that, given that I have not
implemented anything yet ;)

Andy
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