On 9/25/05, Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's cool! They work out of order too! > > I was wanting to do something like that. One reason people like XML > is that you can have optional attributes and give them in any order. > So then they try to use XML as a programming language and it's just > not well suited to that. > > The "even number of args" requirement is a little odd though. Another > syntax for this kind of functionality would be > > (fn (i . 1) (j . 2)) > > which seems more like typical scheme to me, and you don't need the > special meaning for symbols that end with colon. >
Another interesting idea is here: http://www.bloodandcoffee.net/campbell/proposals/optional.text cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
