[plt-scheme] [OT] Re: [plt-dev] reading symbols beginning with colon as keywords?

Jakub Piotr Cłapa <jpc-ml at zenburn.net> writes:

> On 6/14/09 4:26 AM, Grant Rettke wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Chongkai Zhu<czhu at cs.utah.edu>  wrote:
>>> You can do this on your own code with readtables:
>>
>> If you put it in base you would lure Ruby programmers to PLT.
>
> And if you support keywords *ending* with : you will lure Smalltalkers
> and Objective-C-ers. ;)
>
And please make $NAME expand to (getenv "NAME") and $(NAME . ARGS) to
(apply run-shell-command (map thing->string '(NAME . ARGS))) to
attract shell scripters -- imagine all those sysadmins! ;-)

Cheers, Rotty