[Jscheme-devel] Re: [Jscheme-user] Hash-Quasi-Strings and Fixed Modulo Primitive

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

Just to be clear my proposal was to use #{ ... }# and #[ ...]#. (ie # is outside).

Well, there's a tradition in common lisp, at least that we'd be against if we use
#{ ... #} and #[ ... #].

In CL you have:
#<... ># to indicate the print representation of a thing that can be read by (read).
#| ... |#  for an extended comment.  I think PLT Scheme has this too.

Though vectors are #(1 2 3) not #(1 2 3)#.

While #{ is a macro character, #} really isn't, and i don't think its right think of it as one.

Johnathan, or Rusty do you have an opinion on this?

At 06:29 PM 6/16/2004 -0400, Timothy John Hickey wrote:
>I guess my feeling was that it might get confusing for people to remember
>whether we were using #{... }#  or {#....#}
>and if we escaped with #[...]# or [#...#]
>So having a simple HASH-SYMBOL syntax for each delimiter makes it somewhat easier
>to remember...