Re: [Readable-discuss] I-expressions: Abbreviations and "."

Egil Möller Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:32:22 -0800

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That's really useful.  After the initial line, it maps a ' followed by whitespace to (quote), which I'm  rather skeptical of as being useful.

This is a special case:

foo
    '
        bar
        fie
    ' naja hehe
    '
    ' x

maps to
(foo (quote (bar fie)) (quote naja hehe) (quote) (quote x))

It also handles ".".   So:
 a . b
maps to (a . b).

This is even more general in the code. You can actually write

foo
bar
fie
.
naja

and it will mean (foo bar fie . naja)

That's really useful too.  However, it also does some stuff that I'd categorize as "data corruption", e.g.:
.
maps to () instead of |.|

This is a special case, and should maybe result in an error.




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