#- makes sense (CL didn't always make things the wrong way :-) And indeed, #; *could* break a lot of already existing editors for a while
-- Laurent 2009/1/25 Jan Rychter <j...@rychter.com> > > Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Jan 25, 1:43 pm, Jan Rychter <j...@rychter.com> wrote: > >>> Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> writes: > >>> > Am 25.01.2009 um 17:11 schrieb Zak Wilson: > >>> > >>> >> Clojure has that in the comment form: (comment (do (not (eval > this)))) > >>> > >>> > No. That's not equivalent. comment leaves a nil behind, while #* > >>> > would not. > >>> > >>> > [:a (comment :b) :c] => [:a nil :c] > >>> > [:a #* :b :c] => [:a :c] > >>> > >>> Exactly. In CL you can use #-(and) for anything, for example function > >>> arguments. I use it like that way regularly while developing code. It > >>> has to be a reader macro. > >>> > >> > >> I'm not ready to add a features-like system to Clojure just yet, but > >> am in favor of a single-form comment-out reader macro. > >> > >> Just need to pick a dispatch character: > >> > >> #- > >> #/ > >> #; > >> > >> other candidates? > > > > I prefer #; since ; is already the normal comment character. > > I would much rather see #-, for two reasons: > > 1. It doesn't mess up all the simple regexp engines that rely on knowing > that anything after a ; is a comment. > > 2. It makes logical sense to me (minus as in compile everything minus > this form). > > Choosing #; means that authors of all editor support code, formatting or > coloring code, javascript beautifiers, and so on will have to deal with > this -- and most of them do not have a reader at hand. > > --J. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
