Alan Manuel Gloria <almkg...@gmail.com> > Actually, I think I very much prefer the "\".
How about "\\" for SPLIT/GROUP? Or use "\\" for SPLIT, and something else (say "....") for GROUP? I *think* that using \\ would resolve my concerns about slashification, and I know you like the look of the "\" character for many use cases. We really don't *need* to have single-character symbols for either GROUP or SPLIT. Even with Scheme's one-char lookahead, you can easily read in the whole symbol before making that decision (our current implementation does). I think it's important that it be non-alphabetic, for clarity (all other abbreviations are punctuation), but there's no implementation reason either have to be single characters. Heck, Lisps already support multi-character abbreviations like ",@". --- David A. Wheeler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
