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From: dganglin@barrow.uwaterloo.ca (Greg Anglin)
Subject: Re: Prefix vs. Infix?
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In article <37k05q$531@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>,
Scott Fahlman <sef@CS.CMU.EDU> wrote:

>In Dylan, which aspires to be a mainstream langauge, only the infix
>syntax is officially supported, so you don't have to worry about this
>choice.  (I agree with this decision on pragmatic grounds, painful as
>it is for me on aesthetic grounds.)

It seems to me that it would be really nice if the infix syntax and
the prefix syntax were isomorphic, in the sense that one could easily
transform one to the other in the editor.  Then people could share
code but nonetheless always work in the syntax of their choice.

I initially had the impression that this is what was being done with
Dylan.  Was this ever the intent, and if so, is it still in the plan?

Greg Anglin
Statistical Computing Laboratory
