Re: modules and syntax

[Robert Mcgrail <mcgrail@bard.edu>]

> What concerns me is that if you have a lot of definitions inside a module,
> you will have to remember to end the module with the closing paren, which
> is kind of unpleasant:
> 
>     (module FooBar
> 			Scheme
> 
> 	;; Lots of definitions
> 
> 	) ;; end of module foobar
> 

I agree that having to remember the last parens can be annoying, but I am
not quite ready for such a side-effect-style module syntax.  Besides, I
like the whole "one construct - one expression" approach that generally
exists in most functional languages (please no Haskell flames) Perhaps a
nice compromise/addition is to construct some sort of IDE to match
parentheses for certain key constructs.

Another 2 cents.

Regards,

Bob McGrail

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