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Per Bothner:
> No. Kawa maps:
> [foo bar] to ($bracket-list$ foo bar)
I think we should *not* require a particular definition for unprefixed [...]. Many Schemes use that as a synonym for (...), and I want to minimize syntactic changes (such differences would be a source of bugs). A particular *implementation* might support [...] as having a special meaning, but that should be independent.
> x[foo bar] to ($bracket-apply$ x foo bar)
Ah, the proposal is to use $bracket-apply$ instead of bracketaccess.
I think it's critical that the bracket access symbol be available in other Lisps too - at least Scheme and Common Lisp. My intent is for this notation to work *beyond* Scheme. But $bracket-access$ is legal in Scheme (at least R5RS) and Common Lisp ("$" is a constituent character), so I think it meets that criteria.
I'm not fond of $bracket-apply$ - it's a little ugly. But perhaps its ugliness is a virtual; people are unlikely to use it as an identifier. And being compatible with a previous convention - especially if people actually use it in real code - has its pluses.
Is there any code that depends on $bracket-apply$? How much? And are there any other thoughts on this, good or bad?
--- David A. Wheeler