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

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

    Marius> Yes, I like this one best, too.  We could use '@' for exported
    Marius> bindings and '@@' for internal ones.

Great!

    >> (. MOD-NAME VAR-NAME)
    >> Intuitively very similar to : IMO, but without the keyword issues.
    >> However, (i) some people might want `.' for the mathematical dot
    >> (scalar) product; (ii) Guile currently seems confused about whether
    >> `.' is a symbol:

    Marius> The dot '.' is a syntactic element when writing and reading improper
    Marius> lists:

Ahem.  I think I'd better just go and hide under a stone .... :-)

        Neil