[CM] questions about adding functionality on top of S7

[Iain Duncan]

Hi Bill, I can absolutely contain it all in external Scheme files and use
autoload. I just wanted to check first to make sure that was the right
approach. Thanks for clarifying.

And I will nix any square bracket ideas then, I'd like whatever I cook up
to make sense as something that plugs into core S7 as sensibly and cleanly
as possible.

thanks
iain

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 10:35 AM <bil at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> I'd rather not add anything to s7, but there's no thought-out policy
> about this -- if something seems natural and useful, like macro
> (analogous to lambda), it might quietly sneak in.
> On square brackets, I think they make code harder to read.
> Using them as parentheses makes it impossible to use them
> in variable names.  I'd like to avoid simple aliases
> like (define first car), although standard scheme forces
> (define call/cc call-with-current-continuation) on me.
> Could you use autoload?
>
>
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