Re: @BKL@, @BKR@, etc.

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paul> Here's an idea: why don't we borrow symbols from the C standard?

Man, I'm really surprised.  I well remember, in a thread on the metric
system, you said (almost word by word), that `we will probably come to
metric system, but we, American, are never going to come to trigraphs'
:) :).

Paul> The C Standard has the digraphs <: for [, :> for ], and %: for
Paul> #.  C doesn't have a digraph for $, but I would suggest S|, as
Paul> the idea seems to be "mentally overprint the characters to get
Paul> an approximation to the symbol".  So we could have this:

Paul> s/@<:@/[/g s/@:>@/]/g s/@S|@/$/g s/@%:@/#/g

Can we consider these guys are unlikely enough to avoid using @@?

Paul> An advantage of this approach is that it doesn't usurp the
Paul> user's name space the way that @BKL@ etc. do.

Absolutely.  I like this idea.

        Akim