Subject: Re: OT: scheme conventions From: Angus Lees <gus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:53:38 +1100 |
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 10:58:49PM -0600, Brandon Ibach wrote: > 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 ($sym), i > > presume that means the same thing?) > > > Where do you see these conventions used? Just in DSSSL specs that > you've looked at? As I recall, Norm Walsh uses these in the DocBook > stylesheets, and he can probably give a summary of his usage. For > DSSSL/Scheme in general, though, I don't believe there are any real > rules. guile (the only other scheme implementation i've really looked at) has such things as '%search-path', '%load-hook', '$sqrt', '$expt'. i notice that slib only uses '%sym' and even then not often. i'm presuming its a "this is a global" or "this is a constant" type thing, i was just surprised that i've never seen it mentioned anywhere. -- - Gus DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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