On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:17 PM, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > Nor does it really make sense to have localized rules for the syntax > of programming languages.
This thread has made me doubt the truth of that statement. Seriously, if the only elements of a program that are rendered in the English alphabet are keywords, I have serious reservations about my ability to read the program. Especially if there are subtleties in the graphemes that I would not catch as someone unfamiliar with the language in which the rest of the program is written. If the variable naming effectively renders the programs non-universally readable, what is the point of trying to formally maintain that conceit. Lynn _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
