Re: FOL

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Stefan Israelsson Tampe <address@hidden> writes:

>> > For setting up the error reporting I used a pdf
>> > describing the syntax-parse macro
>> > 
>> >   http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/icfp10-cf.pdf
>> 
>> Yeah, that seems like an improvement in terms of error detection and
>> error reporting (better than “source expression failed to match any
>> pattern”...).
>> 
>> However, I don’t like the aesthetics: keywords, and, worse, type
>> annotations embedded in identifiers.
>
> The syntax can be fixed, any ideas?

No, but I think that having a consensual syntax among Schemers may be
more sustainable than rolling our own macro system.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.