On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Walter Bright<[email protected]> wrote: > Jarrett Billingsley wrote: >> >> I think it's funny that for a week, Andrei has been arguing against >> throwing around new syntax to solve this problem, and that's exactly >> what you guys have come up with. > > That's in the nature of debating in order to try to figure out the best > solution. It's hard to think of all the ramifications, positives, negatives, > and corner cases all at the same time. > > >> Really, how much more complicated >> would this make the parser, compared to adding a new attribute? > > Neither of these proposals is a particular problem for the parser.
What about my other points? Do you have a response? I almost had trouble believing this proposal wasn't a joke, given how contrived and unintuitive it is. Shouldn't that be an important consideration?
