Alan Manuel Gloria: > So what's the consensus? It seems we're the only two here, Arne is > not responding to the mailinglist, and no one else is making any > comments either way. > > I suggest we at least write it up as a rationale no SRFI-sweet; maybe > the more public SRFI process will pick up a few people who will > provide a better alternative view on this topic. I tried my best to > push for ENLIST using what I think is Arne's semantics, but I may be > biased due to my sheer love of SUBLIST.
First, I think we must *not* accept ENLIST (either line-ending or magic position semantics) into sweet-expressions, either as a replacement or an addition. It just has too many problems for little payoff, and its "simplicity" is an illusion once the problems of character widths in international systems are considered. Second, I don't think we *have* to document it in SRFI-sweet, but a subsection in SRFI-sweet would be appropriate. It should: 1. Briefly explain the proposed semantics. 2. Explain why it was not accepted. In particular, identify some of the many problems in figuring out if 2 different data sequences represent the same "position" (variable-wide typefaces, different character encodings, combining characters, etc). > I volunteer to write this rationale topic. Awesome. And don't worry about being biased for SUBLIST. I think there's lots of evidence against ENLIST, and we ought to carefully explain why it is NOT in there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
