[plt-scheme] dots

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:35:16PM +0200, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema wrote:
>  I don't understand the reason to  deviate from the standard
>  prefix notation in scheme.
>
>  Why not use
>
>  (. a b)
>
>  ??

You'd have to implement a custom reader, as the default reader treats the
token "." specially.  (And I'm only mostly certain that a custom reader
would do the trick, though the Algol & Honu languages would seem to
indicate that custom readers are indeed powerful enough.)

Richard