Hi Blake,
> Well, these conventions can be found throughout the gamut of scheme > literature going back to the 80s, and some of the largest scheme > projects, such as Chez, Racket, etc. employ them. So if you're > getting into Scheme, you'll necessarily encounter them, and if you > haven't been made aware that brackets are syntactic sugar for parens > in Scheme, or if that doesn't become apparent with some quick repl > experimentation, you've probably jumped into pattern matching a bit > too quickly. > > But overall, it seems the objections against the Indiana style here > are primarily concerned with individual, current user/contributor > preferences, rather than out of a concern for the target audience, > which are newcomers. I don't think I agree. When I was a newcomer to guile and was reading the sxml-match documentation in the manual for the first time, I found it very confusing that there were square brackets. At that point, I understood match but was confounded into thinking that sxml-match was completely different due to the square brackets. Finally, when I understood, I contributed a patch making everything round parentheses. https://issues.guix.gnu.org/30920 I'd say a typical newcomer is not familiar with the gamut of scheme literature going back to the 80s. I certainly wasn't, and still am not to be honest. Cheers! Arun