Re: [Readable-discuss] Renaming the project or the notation tiers

2012-07-22 Thread David A. Wheeler
Alan Manuel Gloria: So what function name do we use? c-read n-read t-read or curly-infix-read neoteric-read sweet-read? Or provide both? I think curly-infix-read, neoteric-read, and sweet-read. That'd be clearer. I think c-expressions, n-expressions, and t-expressions are more abbreviations

[Readable-discuss] Renaming the project or the notation tiers

2012-07-20 Thread David A. Wheeler
Kartik Agaram You know, I've never known how to pronounce s-expressions either.. ess expressions = tee expressions That's how I pronounce s-expressions, and how I'd pronounce t-expressions. But that doesn't make it canonical :-). I can see that having a simple abbreviated name is useful: *

Re: [Readable-discuss] Renaming the project or the notation tiers

2012-07-20 Thread David A. Wheeler
Alpheus Madsen: It was my understanding that modern-expressions was the name of the rule that transformed the standard s-expr (function arg1 arg2 arg3) into the sweet-expression form function(arg1 arg2 arg3) Well, sort of. Modern expressions add that transformation rule, but the other

Re: [Readable-discuss] Renaming the project or the notation tiers

2012-07-20 Thread Kartik Agaram
f-expressions sounds like f*n-expressions, which is not the association I'm looking for :-). Also, fexprs are a real thing in lisp's history. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the