Re: [pure-lang-users] pure won't complile anymore

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:32 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Albert Graef scripsit:
> 
> > How about calling the interactive 'list' command 'lsd' (for "list
> > definition") instead? In any case it should be short, memoizable and
> > not likely to be used as a function name. Any better ideas?
> 
> Strong associations with LSD-25 for me, and with pounds shillings and
> pence for older Brits.  How about "show"?

LOL. Call it shrooms for mushrooms or dc for Divine Cactus (Peyote)!
Just joking ;-)

show sounds fine to me. Mabye rlist for "rule list."

> Or how about using a signal character before all commands, and think
> of it as part of the command?  Lisp folks like to use comma, because it
> never appears at the beginning of an expression.

Maybe a '!' as an escape? I think the ',' as a first char might be interpreted as a tuple but I could be (probably) wrong.

e.r.