> For professional programmers, it was unbearable. We found it is > impossible to resist typing the "([" after typing LETREC. Old habits > die hard, so we took the entire feature out.
There's a simple solution to this, which we did in the prototype WeScheme editor we built last summer, and which I noticed Eclipse does too: if you type ([, and that's already in the buffer, the editor just moves over the characters (ie, it's like hitting "right-arrow until you're past the parenthetical character you typed"). Works great. It obeys an important principle, which is that a person who knows the syntax and is comfortable just typing it can continue to do so using muscle memory. This way they get the best of both worlds. Shriram _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
