[parenscript-devel] How to call constructor?

[Miron Brezuleanu]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Vladimir Sedach <vsedach at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, it really should, but I want to encourage people to change their
> readtables to invert.

Well, someone who knows about Parenscript symbol name rendering to
JavaScript and READTABLE-CASE will know what this is about. Someone
new to either Parenscript or Common Lisp will have some trouble
figuring things out or will report a bug. If you don't want to change
the example to work with :UPCASE, maybe putting a note about
READTABLE-CASE in the 'new' section would be useful? (converting the
whole manual to one style or another and mentioning the assumed
READTABLE-CASE in the 'Symbol Conversion' section is better, but also
a great deal of work).

For me personally, changing READTABLE-CASE to :INVERT is not a good
choice. I like 'shoe-size' better than 'shoeSize' - it looks more
readable to me. On the other hand, there's some pain when writing
things like 'JSON.stringify' :-)

Maybe Parenscript should include a (not automatically installed)
reader macro that temporarily switches READTABLE-CASE to :INVERT for
the next symbol? (again, for me personally, that would be best: having
both 'shoe-size' and an easy way to enter 'JSON.stringify').

-- 
Miron Brezuleanu