From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Feb 2000 09:16:00 +0100
I'm very OK with changing them. I buy any suggestion of names.
Currently there are four guys:
s/@BKL@/[/g
s/@BKR@/]/g
s/@DLR@/$/g
s/@PND@/#/g
Here's an idea: why don't we borrow symbols from the C standard?
The C Standard has the digraphs <: for [, :> for ], and %: for #.
C doesn't have a digraph for $, but I would suggest S|, as the idea
seems to be "mentally overprint the characters to get an approximation
to the symbol". So we could have this:
s/@<:@/[/g
s/@:>@/]/g
s/@S|@/$/g
s/@%:@/#/g
If you don't like the C digraphs, we could of course use whatever
other digraphs we like (e.g. the Pascal diagraphs). (If we were
feeling really perverse, we could use the C trigraphs. :-)
An advantage of this approach is that it doesn't usurp the user's name
space the way that @BKL@ etc. do.
although I share much of your feelings wrt the level of
compatibility we should aim to, we will probably do it via another
set of correctly quoted macros.
Yes, I think this is the consensus.
