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Re: Guile project submissions draft 2

On Mar 11, Greg Harvey decided to present us with:
> 
> Commands:
> 
> %start : appears at the beginning of each mail; possibly superfluous,
> but makes it easier to get right to the important stuff without having
> to grovel over mail headers. This is the only thing not being moved to
> the alist thing.

Instead of %start (which implies a %stop, and %stop would be
cool after all so you can leave your .sig), why not just a
convention to put the outmost "(" and ")" by themselves?

If you're worried about mail headers, rule that before the first
"(" you need an empty line [pattern "\n\n("]. For example:

(
 (name "Pinto Simulator")
 (password "pinto forever!")
 (status "The current version is 1.2, and includes numerous reality "
         "enhancements.")
)

Looks pretty no? And lets me update more than one entry in a
single mail message.

[BTW I don't want a "Pinto Simulator". In Brazilian Portuguese
it would mean a very nasty thing. No I won't give details. ;-)]

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