Pronounce the "/" as "with", and it usually makes sense. Sometimes it's
for a variation of a behavior, or composition of behaviors, sometimes
it's just as shorthand for the word "with", and sometimes it's something
else. You might use "/" a little less often, now that you have keyword
arguments -- both for the names, and for optionality.
I think that asterisks often mean simply "variation on a theme", not
necessarily "recursive".
You've identified most of the most popular conventions.
I am trying to introduce one new convention, but I might still be the
only person doing it: pattern variables in syntax transformers are in
all uppercase. Every time I see someone using all-uppercase for
``constants'' in Racket[*], I vow to become rich and powerful, so that I
can quietly destroy those people from a distance.
[*] All-uppercase-and-underscores is something kinda dumb Java did to
make it look like K&R C, even though that convention came from when
``constants'' were uppercase in C because they were problematic
preprocessor symbols.
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