> Hmm. Okay. So our current pool of reserved syntactic symbols are: > > ~ > \ > . > ! > $ > % > ^ > > Is that OK for now?
I think so. Although I think I'm the one who started using "\" for SPLIT, I'm increasingly thinking it's a bad symbol choice. The Common Lisp spec uses that as an escape for the next character in a symbol, and other Lisp implementations do the same. It'd be better to use a symbol that doesn't cause so much incompatibility from the start. Of this set, I think "!" and "~" are better choices. So you could do: myfunc . 1 ! 2 ! 3 or maybe: myfunc . 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 => (myfunc 1 2 3) If the symbol for GROUP == SPLIT, then: ! . a b . c d or ~ . a b . c d => ( (a b) (c d)) Between the two, I have a slight affinity for "!" - it looks like a "separator" to start with. Thoughts? Comments? --- David A. Wheeler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
