Re: @ identifier and R6RS

Shiro Kawai <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:05:12 -1000 (HST)
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.ssax-sxml
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I second for two character sequence.  '%' is also used as a prefix
of somewhat internal names (Lisp tradition?).

--shiro

From: Johannes Bruegmann <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ssax-sxml] @ identifier and R6RS
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:48:50 +0200

> Derick Eddington <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > I discovered that HtmlPrag already uses &, so I'm no longer considering
> > using & as an alias for @.  Now I'm considering %.  Can anyone think of
> > a problem with using %?
> 
> What about using two or three characters, e.g. /@ or *@* ? In my
> opinion, this looks a little bit nicer than at least %. As far as i
> know, % is frequently used in explicit renaming macros, that's why it
> may look a little bit confusing.
> 
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