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Re: Naming convention

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>>>> Mike Sperber said:

>> Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

>>>>> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:13:49 -0500, John David Stone <stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> In my opinion, SRFI writers should treat identifiers containing
> exotic characters as if they were reserved to application
> programmers.

I agree with both of these statements, and rather think that the first
leads to the second.  Please use simple names.  I find the &-names so
ugly that if they were to remain, I expect that any program I wrote
that used conditions would start with (define error-condition &error),
etc.

../Dave