> I think that Racket 6.3 would be a great time to make `:abc` read the same as > `#:abc`.
This sounds like an incredibly breaking change. I support it in general, I think, but it seems like another feature that makes sense for Racket 2/Remix/whatever it ends up being called. I’m sure there are plenty of existing programs that use leading colons in symbols/identifiers. Perhaps you could do an audit on all the packages and see how much breakage occurs with this change? That wouldn’t be definitive, of course, but it would be a good start. What prompts you to suggest this for Racket 6.3 as opposed to any other version? Or is it arbitrary? (Also, there’s no way this would make it into 6.3 given that the release has already begun, even if it weren’t so huge.) I guess it just seems like a potentially highly-destructive change for relatively little gain. The extra character certainly doesn’t feel like enough to make me “pained deeply”. A more interesting and less breaking change might be to make keywords self-quoting... but that’s a separate point entirely. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to racket-dev@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/8027E29A-1304-4772-ABDF-F2BA939AC258%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
