The meaning of braces in various Schemes
John Cowan
(05 Sep 2012 06:24 UTC)
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Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes
David A. Wheeler
(05 Sep 2012 11:50 UTC)
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Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes
John Cowan
(05 Sep 2012 17:20 UTC)
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Do we NEED a marker at all?
David A. Wheeler
(05 Sep 2012 13:25 UTC)
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Re: Do we NEED a marker at all? Jens Axel Søgaard (05 Sep 2012 20:42 UTC)
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Re: Do we NEED a marker at all?
Shiro Kawai
(06 Sep 2012 04:27 UTC)
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Re: Do we NEED a marker at all?
Alan Manuel Gloria
(06 Sep 2012 12:36 UTC)
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Re: Do we NEED a marker at all?
David A. Wheeler
(06 Sep 2012 13:07 UTC)
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Re: Do we NEED a marker at all?
John Cowan
(06 Sep 2012 17:09 UTC)
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Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes
Donovan Kolbly
(07 Sep 2012 02:12 UTC)
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Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes
David A. Wheeler
(07 Sep 2012 03:41 UTC)
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Re: Do we NEED a marker at all? Jens Axel Søgaard 05 Sep 2012 20:34 UTC
2012/9/5 David A. Wheeler <xxxxxx@dwheeler.com>: > John Cowan: >> http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/BracketsBraces shows the meaning >> of square brackets and curly braces in my Scheme test suite, which >> currently includes 45 implementations. Only Chibi and RScheme currently >> do something special with braces; the other implementations treat them >> as either synonyms for parentheses, lexical syntax errors, or identifier >> characters. In Racket read-syntax will store the type of parenthesis used in the syntax object. This implies that macros can use this information during expansion. See: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/reader.html?q=paren#(idx._(gentag._30._(lib._scribblings/reference/reference..scrbl))) Combining this with #%app one can make (foo bar) mean one thing and {foo bar} mean another thing without messing with the reader. A random example of this: https://github.com/soegaard/this-and-that/blob/master/brevity/brevity.rkt But search the Racket mailing list archive for other examples. /Jens Axel