[plt-scheme] the "[" as a parenthis charactor

At Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:43:37 -0500, "Corey Sweeney" wrote:
> Hey, that's a cool idea. I'll start using it.  I guess this means my coding
> conventions are off "standard".
> 
> I often use "[" to indicate a application of a calulated function.  here's a
> dumb example:
> 
> (+ 3
>   [(lambda (x) (+ 2 x)) 5])
> 
> is there a differnt convention for this?  If not i'll just use control-[

I don't know of one, but you might start your own. I think that

 {}

are relatively convention free.
 
> A note, something other then control-[ might be desirable as control-[ is
> "escape".  If the rest of the world decides to follow along, this can cause
> problems with editing from a terminal emulators/ssh, and especially emacs as
> most of it's commands start with escape.  Alt-[ seems to be already bound
> for something.

Suggestions welcome. Especially if you think they would be more obvious
than control-[.


 
> Corey
> 
> 
> On 9/22/06, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >
> > The "[" is rebound to be "smart". Try typing this:
> >
> >   [let [[x 5]] x]
> >   [cond [[= 1 2] 3] [else 5]]
> >
> > with the keystrokes implied above and see what actually comes out.
> >
> > You can disable it in the preferences, or if you just want a single [,
> > you can type control-[
> >
> > Robby
> >
> > At Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:16:23 -0500, "Corey Sweeney" wrote:
> > > I upgraded to drscheme 352, and ever since whenever i hit the "[" as a
> > open
> > > parenthisis, I get "(".  Is this a intentional change to the system
> > > (probably implying that the "[" char is about to start being used for
> > > something other then parens).
> > >
> > > I also had to upgrade X11 to version 7.0 during my drscheme upgrade, so
> > it's
> > > possible that something is screwed up with my keymaps.  (but it only
> > happens
> > > in drscheme)
> > >
> > > Corey
> > >
> > >
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