At Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:50:46 -0500, Dave Herman wrote: > As a compromise, would it make sense for the at-exp reader to turn off > `read-curly-brace-as-paren' so that wherever an accidentally orphaned > curly-brace argument appears, it can produce a more localized error? > It's not a perfect solution, but curly braces are pretty rarely used > as an S-expression delimiter so it might not be too bad of a compromise.
I think this is a good idea. Just yesterday, some of us were noting that curly braces never found a use in S-expressions (unlike square brackets), and the role of curly braces in Scribble makes them less likely to gain a different role.
