On Aug 28, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Bradford W Miller wrote:
"* everyone should learn to just bind the `[' key to insert-delimited-parenthesis anyhow."
Not those of us who use logic languages embedded into Lisp. []'s are used to denote rules as ()'s are used to denote expressions.
Well, not all the "rule based languages" use that notation.
But I concur that the lispworks behavior is surprising, confusing, and should not be taken as a general model of how most of us want to interact with the REPL.
Most features in Slime are on/off. Though I personally do not care *that* much about having the feature in, its existence and use in Lispworks is evidence of at least some popularity. Having said so, I almost want to apologize for having unleashed such a thread on the list :)
Cheers
Marco
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