On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:59 -0500, Andrew Pochinsky wrote: > [URI-based symbol namespaces] is a slippery road toward > symbol property lists.
I don't see that. Property lists are mutable associations attached to symbols. What I'm suggesting is just very long symbol names, based on URIs, that can be abbreviated in source text. I suggest URIs since they come already prepared with conventions for hierarchical name-spaces, parametric name-spaces, and for the distributed, decentralized allocation of unique names among a cooperating society. > It also suggests a parsimonious representation > > in Scheme for URI's and for XML's fully qualified element > > names. > > This seems an excellent argument against CI symbols in the language > when more than 7-bit ASCII character set is allowed. Do you mean because basic URI equivalence is defined in a case-sensitive way? I suggest that that is more like an EQ? / EQV? distinction. -t > --andrew > > > _______________________________________________ > r6rs-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
