I agree. But the same problem can happen with [. What to do there? Robby
On 2/27/09, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote: > 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. > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev >
