[plt-scheme] dots

From: Henk Boom (lunarc.lists at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 11 15:48:48 EDT 2007

On 11/06/07, Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 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.)
>

If I understand his point then you could replace (. a b) with (dot a
b) (or any other short name (such as send =p)) and have a question
making the same point.

     Henk Boom


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