On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 04:56:05AM -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Currently, in main Racket reader, `#:` starts a keyword, as in `#:foo`. > > Who on this email list would also like (or not like) `:` to start a > keyword, as in `:foo`?
Neil, Thanks a lot for asking. I would like to have colon keywords, straight, i.e. ":keyword" rather than "#:keyword". > And, if you want the reader to also support `:foo`, would you want > the writer to default to writing `:foo` rather than `#:foo` (and how > much would you want that)? And in the documentation? I would like to go for :keyword everywhere, if possible. > (I've wanted "colon keywords" since keywords were first added to > Racket, but have been dutifully enduring the "hash-colon", rather > than make anyone who uses my open source packages depend on an > additional package for my own variant of `#lang racket/base`. But, > after many years of this, I still dislike typing and looking at > `#:`. I know some people don't understand why anyone cares (or > suspect bikeshedding), but I get the impression that this is getting > into cog-sci differences between individual programmers. Like you, I "suffer" but if it could be reduced a bit, then the world could maybe become a better place, or something. > Maybe one way to look at it is a vague "programmer preference", like > light vs. dark screen background, rather than try to argue that no > one should I believe those indifferent to light will begin noticing it if they keep programming (or just staring at the screen) whole days while entering their fourties. > want to do it that way. Then the question might be: how popular is > this "colon keyword" programmer preference? Which is why I'm asking > the email list.) I happen to read/write code in various LISP flavours (but I am not as sophistocated as such statement would imply). :keywords are what other LISPs seem to be doing (Common Lisp, Elisp, Gauche the Scheme dialect - this is what I have spotted so far). I think reusing some s-expressions between all those could definitely become easier with :keywords. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
