Re: Initial comments & questions
Ken Dickey 20 Mar 2004 07:31 UTC
On Saturday 20 March 2004 04:06 am, Andre van Tonder wrote:
> > - SYNTAX-DO -- I don't like this at all. It's not very descriptive
> > and it clashes with the DO syntax in regular Scheme. While it may
> > be a good point that it does nothing more than 'do' a computation,
> > and this is also what Haskell uses, it still isn't descriptive to
> > just say 'do,' and it still has the clash.
>
> Understood. I haven't been able to come up with a better name, though.
I would suggest SYNTAX-BIND, since binding is what it does, and picking a new
name for the current (internal) syntax-bind.
LIkewise, I would prefer SYNTAX-QUOTE to SYNTAX-INSPECT, as I fail to see an
inspector when I invoke it. I think quoting is what it does...
$0.02
-KenD