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On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 20:53 US/Eastern, bear wrote:
It would certainly be possible to do it using an additional identifier; An "obvious" choice, which is a legal identifier according to R5RS, would be ::: .
I like this one. What do some other people think?
Other "obvious" choices which are legal identifiers
include <...> or /.../ . The first of those two is particularly tasty
because it allows a general "nested" syntax; you could use
<<...>>, <<<...>>>, etc, for more layers of nesting.
I don't like the angle bracket idea. Not only would the 'nested' stuff be additional unnecessary syntax, but I don't see a reason why you'd need to
nest it at all: it's not like if you put it in the template it would generate anything weird if you didn't use <<...>> etc.
One thing to remember though, is that an ellipsis matches anything in the code it's matching against -- including another ellipsis. So there may actually be no issue here.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Could you please elaborate?
Bear