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Re: SRFI 105: Curly-infix-expressions John Cowan 31 Aug 2012 17:12 UTC

David A. Wheeler scripsit:

> It was hard enough coming up with a unique name.  prefix-expressions =>
> p-expressions sounds like "pee-expressions", and function-expressions
> => f-expressions sounds like "f*n-expressions".  "m" and "s" are
> already taken.  I'm willing to entertain alternatives (got any?),
> but I'm not really excited about creating yet another name.  It took
> a long discussion to get to that one. Besides, if the biggest problem
> is the name, life is good :-).

If you go from three layers (c-exprs, n-exprs, sweet-exprs) to just two
(c-exprs that may contain n-exprs, sweet-exprs), then you don't need a
separate name for n-exprs.

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