Re: OT: scheme conventions

[Brandon Ibach <bibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Angus Lees <gus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> .. i'm new to scheme (and lisp) and there's something i haven't seen
> explained anywhere:
> 
> what do the naming conventions $sym$, %sym% (, etc?) mean?
> 
> (i think i've also seen it with only the leading character ($sym), i
> presume that means the same thing?)
> 
   Where do you see these conventions used?  Just in DSSSL specs that
you've looked at?  As I recall, Norm Walsh uses these in the DocBook
stylesheets, and he can probably give a summary of his usage.  For
DSSSL/Scheme in general, though, I don't believe there are any real
rules.

-Brandon :)


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