On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Richard Newman <holyg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe this ought to be fixed; i.e., if the reader sees #^{meta} 'foo
> > it applies the metadata to foo first, then quotes it, resulting in
> > the same thing as (quote #^{meta} foo).
>
> Why introduce that special case, when you can simply do the second?
>
> I don't support the view that it's OK for programmers to not know what
> they're doing, which in this case means knowing that 'foo reads as
> (quote foo).
I'm not advocating in favor of programmers not knowing what they're doing.
I'm advocating in favor of avoiding as many subtle gotchas as possible.
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