Stephen McCracken wrote:
> The function names in this srfi, while descriptive,
> tend to be pretty long.  I would like to discuss
> possible abbreviations for "stream".
>
> Personally, I like "$" as an abbreviation.  It
> suggests "stream" because it looks like an 'S'.
> Furthermore, it suggests laziness, as '$' is lazy
> application in haskell, and Okasaki uses '$' as
> notation for suspensions in his _Purely Functional
> Data Structures_.  Unfortunately, '$' cannot begin an
> identifier in R5RS.  Here are some legal variations:
>
> Instead of "stream-map",
>
>    _$-map
>    S$-map
>    map-$
>    L$-map   (suggests "lazy list")
>    C$-map   (suggests "lazy cons")
>    S-map
>    Phil-map
>

An old Lisp tradition is to reserve special characters for user code.
That's a good tradition. I'd rather type 6 more characters than
have code that looks like Perl.

cheers,
felix