Re: Community preference so far? Per Bothner 29 Sep 2015 12:47 UTC


On 09/29/2015 05:07 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Per Bothner scripsit:
>
>> Using SRFI-10 has the known problems - and looks ugly IMP.
>
> *All* unfamiliar lexical syntax looks ugly: this is a psycholinguistic fact.

No doubt.  Which is to be preferred:

#,(hash (re . 3) (im . 6))

or:

#hash((re . 4) (im . 4))

Not a huge difference, agreed.
I think it would be good to standardize *something*, preferably
something already in use.  Co-existing with quasi-quoatation
in some sane way would also be desirable: in a pinch alist->hash-table
could be used, but it is mildly verbose.
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