> On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 09:05:37PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > The attached patch ensures we write such identifiers as |:type-tests:| > > > regardless of keyword style. This way, it can also be read by any > > > program, even if it uses a different keyword style than the writer. > > > > > > > Ugh... How ugly. Is there no way around this? The "|" are only necessary > > in "readable" mode, right? > > What do you mean by readable mode? If you mean that it's only needed > when you want to later use READ to read back the expression, then yes. > For regular display it doesn't matter.
Yes, write vs display, that's what I meant. > > I don't see how it's a huge problem; one wouldn't need to write such > symbols very often, and usually you have suffix style enabled, so the > pipes are only unnecessary when the symbol only starts with a colon. > When there's a colon on both ends or on the right side, you _have_ to > pipe-quote it anyway, and we do already. It's not a HUGE problem, just ugly. So I understand this only applies to |:XXX:|? Then it is a different story... felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
