Alexis King wrote on 10/14/2015 01:32 AM:
I think that Racket 6.3 would be a great time to make `:abc` read the same as
`#:abc`.
This sounds like an incredibly breaking change.
It should not be a breaking change.
Anyone who has used a colon as a leading character in a symbol (other
than the one-character symbol `:`) in a Lisp-family language, for
anything other than the same purpose as a Racket keyword, deserves what
they get.
What prompts you to suggest this for Racket 6.3 as opposed to any other version?
I make this request periodically.
I guess it just seems like a potentially highly-destructive change for
relatively little gain.
I think it's not destructive, nor even disruptive. And it's for a big
gain, for some people.
The extra character certainly doesn’t feel like enough to make me “pained
deeply”.
Some people are high-verbal, some are high-visual, some are both.
Different people have different aesthetic senses. Racket should be a
beautiful friend to all people.
Neil V.
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