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Updated SRFI-105 David A. Wheeler (04 Sep 2012 01:09 UTC)
Updated SRFI-105 highlights David A. Wheeler (04 Sep 2012 01:22 UTC)
Marker #!srfi-105 David A. Wheeler (04 Sep 2012 20:24 UTC)
srfi-105 and srfi-38 Shiro Kawai (05 Sep 2012 01:45 UTC)
Re: srfi-105 and srfi-38 David A. Wheeler (05 Sep 2012 02:23 UTC)
Re: Updated SRFI-105 Michael Sperber (04 Sep 2012 19:12 UTC)
Updated SRFI-105 (2012-09-08) David A. Wheeler (08 Sep 2012 22:45 UTC)

Updated SRFI-105 (2012-09-08) David A. Wheeler 08 Sep 2012 22:45 UTC
Here's the updated (and hopefully improved) SRFI-105.  SRFI editors: Would you please update to this one?

Some highlights:
* Discusses infix.plt, another infix system
* Has a longer discussion about precedence
* Include John Cowan's research about brace use in Schemes. Only 2 (Chibi and RScheme)
   of 45 have a meaning assigned to the braces, a remarkably small number.
* Include Donovan Kolbly's description of RScheme's brace use
* Separate discussion of why marker should begin with "#!", vs. why the marker should be "#!srfi-105".
* Now completely HTML 3.2  per the W3C validator - no exceptions at all.  The one use of "style="
  has been replaced with a table and non-breakable-hyphen to force formatting.
* Said that for portability, portable applications SHOULD use the marker, per request by John Cowan
* I reorganized some things in the early part of the rationale.  Hopefully it's clearer, though that means that "diff" will show changes that are really just moves.

I polled the guile list about beginning a marker with "#!", since they have a completely different semantic for #! than some others.  Generally nobody on the guile list screamed about it, which was reassuring.

I HAVE gotten some complaints about using #!srfi-105 ... several want #!curly-infix.  But those emails aren't on the SRFI-105 email list!  I haven't changed the marker, but I did separate out the discussion of "#!" from "#!srfi-105", since they are separate issues, in case that changes.  I hope to see some others join, and then have a discussion on that topic.  If the only issue is the spelling of a marker, that's pretty good.

--- David A. Wheeler