I've now modified the sweet-expression implementation, per Mark H Weaver's earlier posting, so that "#;" at the beginning of a line, followed by whitespace, comments out a *sweet-expression* instead of just a *neoteric-expression* (in the same way that this works for ' and so on).
The implementation is now available in the "datum-comment" branch in the readable-discuss git repository. It includes the updated grammar, a tweaked SRFI-110, as well as the sample Scheme implementation that does it. I'm sure that the SRFI will need to be improved further to clarify it, if we add this. The implementation turns out to be fairly straightforward. Adding this does add a capability to sweet-expressions, and makes it more consistent. The only negative is that to implement the sweet-expression reader you have to coordinate with the underlying datum reader. Basically, there needs to be a way for the underlying reader to report that it read #; followed by whitespace, without actually reading the following datum. My hope is that the sweet-expression reader gets built into the Scheme implementation; in such cases there's no problem. I can imagine recommending a special neoteric-read version that returns a special marker, as well as a special marker; anyone think that'd be a good idea? So... should we merge this in? Or not? It all comes down to, would this increase or decrease the likelihood of its acceptance? I'm planning on adding it to the main line, but I'd like to know if there are problems doing so. Thanks. --- David A. Wheeler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
