If only there was a way to have the best of both worlds.
E.g. change the background color for #; to something reminiscent of the
foreground color of regular comments:
(display #|Comment|#
; comment
#;(string-join "comm" "ent")
"Hello world")
Or perhaps something like the emacs rainbow-parens that Christopher
mentioned could help.
Dan
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 4:43 AM Matthias Felleisen <matth...@felleisen.org>
wrote:
>
> I have some sympathy for this view but I think that it is a
> misunderstanding.
>
> I think #; is rather distinct from #| ... |# and ;; It signals “the
> following is a
> code snippet that is currently not useful or not quite right but you
> should
> read it as code and with the structure of code in mind”. Here is a use
> that
> illustrates this. When I write untyped code, I strictly follow the design
> recipe
> (because I discovered that “do as I tell you not as I do” applies here
> too).
> For signatures, I write
>
> #; [ String String -> (U Number String) ]
> (define (f s t)
> (if (= (string-length t) 3) 0 s))
>
> and such things. I want this signature to be readable as code when someone
> wishes to inject types into my code.
>
> Similar uses for code snippets abound in my repos too. — Matthias
>
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