Re: [Readable-discuss] Proposal: extended PERIOD notation

2013-02-17 Thread David A. Wheeler
I asked: > > Quick confirmation, to make sure we have the same understanding... > > When you surrounded "srfi 41 primitive" with parens, did you intend > > it to mean something different than if they weren't? Or was that just > > a style you prefer? Alan Manuel Gloria: > Style preference; Scheme

Re: [Readable-discuss] Proposal: extended PERIOD notation

2013-02-17 Thread Alan Manuel Gloria
On 2/18/13, David A. Wheeler wrote: > Alan Manuel Gloria: >> <* define-library \\ (srfi 41 primitive) >> >> export . ( >> stream-cons stream-null >> stream-pair? stream-null? stream? >> stream-car stream-cdr >> stream-lambda >> ) > > which can then be closed with: >> *> > > > > Quick confi

Re: [Readable-discuss] Proposal: extended PERIOD notation

2013-02-17 Thread David A. Wheeler
Alan Manuel Gloria: > <* define-library \\ (srfi 41 primitive) > > export . ( > stream-cons stream-null > stream-pair? stream-null? stream? > stream-car stream-cdr > stream-lambda > ) which can then be closed with: > *> Quick confirmation, to make sure we have the same understanding...

Re: [Readable-discuss] Proposal: extended PERIOD notation

2013-02-13 Thread Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin
On Feb 13, 2013 6:26 AM, "David A. Wheeler" wrote: > > > Alan Manuel Gloria: > > > xref. Arne Babenhauserheide's concept, I'm proposing that we steal his > > > extended PERIOD notation and add it into sweet-expressions. > > > > <* define-library \\ (srfi 41 primitive) > > > > > > export > > > .

Re: [Readable-discuss] Proposal: extended PERIOD notation

2013-02-13 Thread David A. Wheeler
> Alan Manuel Gloria: > > xref. Arne Babenhauserheide's concept, I'm proposing that we steal his > > extended PERIOD notation and add it into sweet-expressions. > > <* define-library \\ (srfi 41 primitive) > > > > export > > . stream-cons stream-null > > . stream-pair? stream-null? stream? >

Re: [Readable-discuss] Proposal: extended PERIOD notation

2013-02-11 Thread David A. Wheeler
Alan Manuel Gloria: > xref. Arne Babenhauserheide's concept, I'm proposing that we steal his > extended PERIOD notation and add it into sweet-expressions. Thanks for writing this up, I've been noodling this as well. It's certainly worth considering. As I just posted in a previous email, one of

[Readable-discuss] Proposal: extended PERIOD notation

2013-02-11 Thread Alan Manuel Gloria
xref. Arne Babenhauserheide's concept, I'm proposing that we steal his extended PERIOD notation and add it into sweet-expressions. Basically: foo . x ==> (foo x) ...which is currently what we have. However, the extended PERIOD notation is: foo . x y ==> (foo x y) ... in contrast t