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? John Cowan 06 Sep 2012 17:09 UTC
David A. Wheeler scripsit: > I think we should make an even weaker statement: > "Applications may include this marker before using any curly-infix > expressions, typically near the top of a file." > > If, as we hope, everyone implements it anyway, then applications won't > need the marker for portability... so let's not hamstring them with > the requirement that they MUST do it. I think this should be SHOULD. RFC 2119 says: 3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course. -- John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Sir, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many? --George Bernard Shaw, to a man booing at the opening of _Arms and the Man_