Or why not write a reader adapter to racket/base (à la Scribble's at-exp-reader) that does precisely that? Then you could use it if you like without breaking anything I suppose and meet your request of a beautiful-for-all Racket.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/561DEC09.6040304%40neilvandyke.org > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CABNTSaEUXXRQZUDwvzENiNyfaU3xhT8S%3DXFMDhZXZUbAevQQTQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
