Arne Babenhauserheide:
> : is already used in Lisp, but as far as I know it only has a meaning
> if it is followed by non-whitespace (for keyword arguments).
>
> All of the usages in group, split, have following whitespace or
> linebreaks, though. So this would allow using the existing structure
> characters for additional readable structure without inhibiting
> anything else.
Okay, so ":" is another plausible spelling of "\\".
I don't care very strongly either way, but the "\\" does seem more visually
distinct (and since these change the meaning, that matters).
> For the test (worst case):
>
> defun a
> :b c :
> :d e :
> :f g
We currently don't have anything defined for a special symbol at the end of a
line. Is this a proposed consume-newline as I had once proposed, e.g., I once
proposed that if "\" is at the end of a line, the end of line (and following
indent) is ignored?
> let
> :
> h i
> j k
> if : {h = 3}
Hmm, this is different. Do you mean for ":" to be ignored in the middle of a
line?
> : message "True"
> message "False
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