Alan Manuel Gloria:
> Should we be mentioning sweet-expressions at this stage? The
> t-expressions specs are still on the burner.
I think it's okay as a *rationale*. We're not saying what the semantics of
sweet-expressions are, we're just saying that there is a use case where they
are useful.
> I imagine that the (. foo) escape can be put in the t-expressions SRFI.
Yes, but I think it's important to do it this way:
- It greatly simplifies implementing sweet-expressions, or any other system
needing escapes, on top. I can easily envision someone implementing
n-expressions but not t-expressions. If there's an n-expression reader with (.
e), and unread-char, you can *easily* implement sweet-expressions on top.
- It's easy to include with neoteric-expressions, since you're mucking with the
meaning of (...) anyway
- It's harder to argue that (. e) is part of sweet-expressions.
Sweet-expressions are all about indentation processing; once "(" begins, you're
no longer really doing sweet-expressions until its matching ")".
So I think it's important that (. e) be part of *neoteric* expressions.
> The "bracketaccess" rule allows the implementation of functions to access
> items as arrays or other objects. Also, an application might define
> "bracketaccess" using SRFI-17 Generalized set! to support syntax like "(set!
> str[x] #\a)".
Good point. Added.
> Oh, and I hereby put the above text in the public domain so that you can
> remain the sole author ^^
Nuts to that. You've been too much help! I've put you on the author list
anyway. Feel free to remove your name if you'd prefer it that way.
--- David A. Wheeler
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