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On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Taylor Campbell wrote: > >On Dec 7, 2003, at 2:48 PM, Taylor Campbell wrote: > >> Comments, and what are some thoughts on whether to use (...) or (... >> ...) for the base of the ellipsis generator, which I mentioned in >> passing a while ago? (Argument for (...): it makes much more sense. >> Argument for (... ...): it's what everyone uses already.) > >Another idea: the ellipsis token is a dotted list whose elements are >all ... and whose terminator is .... An empty dotted ellipsis list >acts as ellipsis; a dotted ellipsis list pair expands to its CDR. No, I think this is too complicated. We're talking more about this as syntax than as list structure anyway; I think that making people think in terms of list structure would just confuse the issue. My recommendation is keep it simple: ... (... ...) (... ... ...) (... ... ... ...) etc, to match existing practice. Bear