From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mikael Djurfeldt Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: New syntax: (: MODULE-NAME VARIABLE-NAME) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:09:58 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87brrgw32m.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> Reply-To: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068847988 13133 80.91.224.253 (14 Nov 2003 22:13:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se, guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 23:13:05 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 1AKmBd-0003Ak-00 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:13:05 +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 1AKn8n-0005fX-AR for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:14:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AKn7d-0005Bn-Pm for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:13:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AKn6e-0003HO-Ra for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:12:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.212.20.77] (helo=kvast.blakulla.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AKn65-0002eO-3V for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:11:25 -0500 Original-Received: from chunk.mit.edu ([18.42.2.92] helo=chunk ident=mail) by kvast.blakulla.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKm8d-0005hl-00; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:09:59 +0100 Original-Received: from mdj by chunk with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AKm8c-0001xj-JN; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:09:58 -0500 Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <87brrgw32m.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:12:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) 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:3022 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3022 Marius Vollmer writes: > what about making the changes below? The only unclean thing is that > we would need to change the interpretation of a single ':'. But isn't that pretty darn unclean? It changes the lexical structure of the language. Note that we currently have an option which controls whether the reader conforms to R5RS ("Extended alphabetic characters may be used within identifiers as if they were letters.") or whether colon is marking a keyword, and that this option is defaulted to R5RS. I vote for using some syntax which is compatible with R5RS and would urge you strongly to at least keep the possibility to be compatible (=> new option controlling the interpretation of colon). M _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel