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@ 2010-10-12 18:37 Andy Wingo
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From: Andy Wingo @ 2010-10-12 18:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alex Shinn, Ludovic Courtès, guile-devel

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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