Re: New syntax: (: MODULE-NAME VARIABLE-NAME)

[Dirk Herrmann]

Marius Vollmer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> what about making the changes below?  The only unclean thing is that
> we would need to change the interpretation of a single ':'.  The colon
> is such a natural choice, but we could avoid that uncleanliness by
> using some other symbol.  Which one?
Hi,

I think it would be nice to have such a shortcut. However, there is a 
problem we should consider first, before providing such a thing: Do you 
mean ':' to refer to syntactic bindings also? This would influence the 
memoizing phase, when memoizing is separately performed before execution.

Best regards
Dirk