> https://sourceforge.net/p/readable/wiki/Solution/ > "A leading quote, comma, backquote, or comma-at, followed by space or tab, is > a list with that operator and the following expression." > > Of course, if you think that's a bad idea, then let's discuss! This is > straight from SRFI-49..
It's not this rule in particular, but the spec as a whole seems quite complex. http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/version02.html is quite long, and it includes this wormhole to the universe of SRFI 49, which the reader must also understand. It might be a useful exercise to inline SRFI's rules into v0.3 and try to organize them to be shorter and simpler. v0.2 tries to be both a tutorial and a spec, and I think that makes it too intimidating. Lose the motivation, assume that the reader is already on board by the time (s)he gets to that page, etc., etc. --- GROUP doesn't seem worth the extra complexity required to explain it to others. If you have a list with a nested list as its first element.. just add parens. We don't need alternate syntax for every possible situation. Some of the burden of being readable must fall also to the user of our notation. If lists in function position are hard to read we need incentives to avoid them. Is sweet expressions trying to make lisp syntax familiar to non-lispers? With wart I wasn't trying to make the notation look familiar, just to make it easier to read at length. I was trying to keep my readers reading when they don't have the fluency to parse all the parens just yet. Dijkstra said we shouldn't teach novel ideas by making them seem familiar: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
