[racket-dev] enter! verbosity

9 minutes ago, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > A few seconds ago, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> >> At Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:18:13 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> >>> I've made the syntax be:
> >>>
> >>>   (enter! <module> <noisy>)
> >>>
> >>> where <noisy> is either `#f', `#t', or `#:reloading'.
> >> Descriptive keywords in place of `#t' and `#f' would be clearer and
> >> would avoid mixing literal values and keywords in the same position.
> > 
> > OK, but I can't think of good names...  `#:always' and `#:never'?
> > `#:verbose' and `#:silent'?  `#:verbose' and `#:quiet'?  `#:loading'
> > and `#:never'?
> 
> (enter! <module> maybe-show-load)
>    maybe-show-load = #:show-load show-load-expr
>                    | <nothing>
>    show-load-expr : (or/c 'yes 'no 'reload)

Way too verbose to my taste.  This is supposed to be something that
you'd actually write in a repl.


> (enter! <module> maybe-show-load)
>    show-load-option = #:show-load
>                     | #:show-reload
>                     | <nothing>

Problematic for two reasons: (a) it's not obvious that `#:show-load'
implies `#:show-reload', (b) the popular choice for a default is to
show reloads.

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