Re: [Readable-discuss] treatment of quote symbol

2013-12-06 Thread Jörg F. Wittenberger
Am 06.12.2013 07:01, schrieb David A. Wheeler: I'm guessing Joerg Wittenberger wants something else, though :-). So let's talk about that. I just wanted to know whether the current behavior was an accident or intentional. John's reply http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/QuoteDelimiter made me

Re: [Readable-discuss] Reorganize to reduce namespace pollution and maximally create library

2013-12-06 Thread Alan Manuel Gloria
Hmm. Generating code is reasonable of course. One problem with the shar approach is that common code will be copied into different separate files, and eventually not consistently maintained. I'd like to say one thing once as much as possible (for maintenance). A variation would be to

Re: [Readable-discuss] treatment of quote symbol

2013-12-06 Thread John Cowan
David A. Wheeler scripsit: To be honest, I think we should treat x'x as an error in the sample implementation (though guile treats x'x as a single symbol). You can always use |x'x| if you mean that, and if you mean (x 'x), we already have several much clearer ways to express that: +1 --

Re: [Readable-discuss] treatment of quote symbol

2013-12-06 Thread David A. Wheeler
I said: To be honest, I think we should treat x'x as an error in the sample implementation (though guile treats x'x as a single symbol). You can always use |x'x| if you mean that, and if you mean (x 'x), we already have several much clearer ways to express that: On Fri, 6 Dec 2013