[bitc-dev] (member ...) syntax

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

Overloading dot or arrow in this fashion would be a very unfortunate
choice.

My suggestion is not to worry about this, since the s-expression syntax
is going away in any case.

shap

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:41 -0700, Pal-Kristian Engstad wrote:
> I think the (member ...) construction is poorly named. Instead of using 
> "(member if id)" as a syntax for "if.id", perhaps "member" should be 
> replaced with a single dot ".", i.e.:
> 
> (. sloc id)   <=> sloc.id
> (. sloc id1 id2 id3) <=> sloc.id1.id2.id3
> 
> Additionally, it might be an idea to support integer values as well. Hence:
> 
> (. aloc 3) <=> (array-nth aloc3)     { Is there a reason not to have 
> aloc[3]? }
> (. vec 2) <=> vec[2] <=> (vector-nth vec 3)
> 
> If using a single dot is not lexable, then perhaps use "->" instead.
> 
> Also, using #| and |# as (nested) comment blocks could be useful.
> 
> PKE.
>