Re: [Chicken-users] need idea for read-syntax

[Felix Winkelmann]

Am Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:12:53 +0000 hat Category 5 <address@hidden> 
geschrieben:

> felix <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Personally, I don't care much wether it's #{ ... }# or #[ ... ]#.  The
> > problem with the former is that it would some changes to the compiler
> > (which uses it extensibly for another hackish purpose), and that would
> > cause a bootstrapping problem (not serious, though). The problem with
> > the latter is that the association with embedded C code seems a bit
> > far-fetched.
>
> Like #> ... <#?  =)

Hm. You have a point. ;-)

> How about this:
>
>     statement sequence:  #{ ... }#
>     typed value:         #{[c-string] var}#

Yes, that's going to be it, I guess. But I'm also tending
to leave it out entirely...

> > Absolutely. I use [] quite a lot as a replacement for normal parens,
> > especially when nesting gets deep:
> >
> > (let-values ([(x y z) ...])
> >   ...)
> >
> > appears to be more readable (for me) than
> >
> > (let-values (((x y z) ...))
> >   ...)
>
> I agree, but I also think that let-values is a worst-case example.

It is. But also in cases like

(let ([foo 1] [bar 2]) ...)

it helps me keep the parens/brackets properly balanced. But in the
end it's just s personal style issue.


cheers,
felix