From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: New syntax: (: MODULE-NAME VARIABLE-NAME) Date: 17 Nov 2003 20:18:14 +0000 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87brrgw32m.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <873ccsugrz.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <874qx5slpw.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <871xs8qkxz.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <874qx4oxst.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069104871 15131 80.91.224.253 (17 Nov 2003 21:34:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:34:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 22:34:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ALr0u-0002wm-00 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:34:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ALrq7-0006ly-Ru for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:27:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ALrnm-0005YO-S3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:24:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ALrnD-00059c-I3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:24:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.21] (helo=s1.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ALrnD-00058p-2C for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net (bts-0164.dialup.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.48.164]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hAHLMsM10155; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:22:54 GMT Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net.ossau.uklinux.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by laruns.ossau.uklinux.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.2 (i386)) with ESMTP id 0019BDC4D3; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:18:14 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <874qx4oxst.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3046 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3046 >>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer writes: Marius> Yes, I like this one best, too. We could use '@' for exported Marius> bindings and '@@' for internal ones. Great! >> (. MOD-NAME VAR-NAME) >> Intuitively very similar to : IMO, but without the keyword issues. >> However, (i) some people might want `.' for the mathematical dot >> (scalar) product; (ii) Guile currently seems confused about whether >> `.' is a symbol: Marius> The dot '.' is a syntactic element when writing and reading improper Marius> lists: Ahem. I think I'd better just go and hide under a stone .... :-) Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel