> N.B. In scheme the mutating fns have names suffixed with a ! - I've > always found this convention to be helpful - is there a reason it's > not used in factor? > > Cheers, > > Phil
I've suggested this before, but the issue is that ! indicates comments. While it wouldn't cause syntactic ambiguity per se, it still might confuse people to have words ending in ! and still have meaningful things on the same line. Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
