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Miscellaneous comments John Cowan (16 Aug 2015 01:05 UTC)
Re: Miscellaneous comments taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (16 Aug 2015 13:21 UTC)
Re: Miscellaneous comments John Cowan (16 Aug 2015 14:04 UTC)
Re: Miscellaneous comments taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (16 Aug 2015 16:29 UTC)
Re: Miscellaneous comments taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (16 Aug 2015 19:50 UTC)
Re: Miscellaneous comments taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (17 Aug 2015 08:21 UTC)

Re: Miscellaneous comments taylanbayirli@xxxxxx 17 Aug 2015 08:21 UTC

xxxxxx@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes:

> There are now two people opposing 3-argument set!.  I'll wait for some
> more input before removing it.

There was consensus among everyone I asked in that (set! (~ object
field) value) is preferable to (set! object field value).

There was one objection to using punctuation syntax like ~, which is
unfortunate but not critical.  I believe most Schemers will agree that
heavy punctuation syntax on the level of Haskell (let alone APL) is
undesirable, but a piece of punctuation here and there for very common
concepts (like "field of a collection object") should be acceptable.

Draft #3 should be published soon.

Taylan