Hi David, Am Sonntag, 8. Juni 2014, 18:05:53 schrieb David A. Wheeler: > A few comments, though, besides ones already made. I have concerns that lone > ":" is actually *widely* used for other purposes, e.g., type declarations, > that this syntax interferes with. Similarly, "_" has many uses on its own. > I think it'd be wise to grab a bunch of code and try to reformat it this way. > I did that a *LOT* to create SRFI-110; a lot of syntax that SEEMS like a > good idea doesn't actually work well with real code.
For _ this should not be too bad: It only has a special meaning in wisp when used as the very first character in a line (then the underscore and consecutive underscores are treated as whitespace). For : I am not perfectly sure. I know that typed racket uses it for type-declarations¹, so this is a regression. On the other hand this only hurts for top-level defines, where it is seldomly needed. I added some details under http://draketo.de/proj/wisp/srfi.html#sec-3-2 (disadvantages of wisp). ¹: http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/more.html?q=typed#%28part._.Type_.Annotation_and_.Binding_.Forms%29 Best wishes, Arne
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