Re: Scheme: Using brackets in addition to parentheses

2023-10-20 Thread David Kastrup
Jean Abou Samra writes: > AFAIK, this is seldom used by Guile coders, though some other Scheme > communities do use this style by convention. > > I wouldn't embark on rewriting lots of code/documentation for this; I > don't think the effort pays off. I don't really like it and I don't think it

Re: Scheme: Using brackets in addition to parentheses

2023-10-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
AFAIK, this is seldom used by Guile coders, though some other Scheme communities do use this style by convention. I wouldn't embark on rewriting lots of code/documentation for this; I don't think the effort pays off.

Scheme: Using brackets in addition to parentheses

2023-10-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
As I've just discovered, brackets work the same as parentheses in Scheme expressions: ``` #[set-global-staff-size 26] { c' } ``` Guile allows this by default; the read option `square-brackets` is active for compatibility with R6RS. Shall we use and advertise this? Some user Scheme code