[racket-dev] P4P: A Syntax Proposal

That did the trick -- thanks!

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Look up the 'paren-shape stx property.
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> Jay
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> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>> That does sound like the right level, in that this isn't a new
>> "language" -- by design.
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>> I started out by trying to create a new syntax; then I realized I
>> didn't need to; then that I didn't *want* to.  By then I was locked
>> into this file structure and didn't come up for air.  I probably
>> didn't peel off enough layers.
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>> Before I can move forward, I still need to resolve the syntactic
>> ambiguity.  As I understand it, Racket doesn't give me enough
>> information to distinguish {...} from (...) from [...].  Is that right
>> and, if so, is there any chance that will change?  [Zodiac did that
>> <-;.]  I don't want a solution that looks like "go look in the MrEd
>> buffer for...".  I'd rather not do a reader extension for it because
>> the extra keystrokes will add up.
>>
>> Shriram
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