Re: Reader option to permit brackets as parentheses

[Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> For what it's worth, I have seen academic papers by RnRS authors use
> [] interchangably with (). That's a fairly strong endorsement.
> 
> I hate to admit it but I actually found it somewhat more readable (the
> usual convention is to use square brackets consisently with certain
> special forms, e.g. cond and the let family).

When guile does have [] support, it'd be nice to include a little script
to switch () to [] (and back) in the standard places (e.g., let bindings
and cond guard expressions).  Any takers?

Greg