On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:41:45 +0000 Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com> wrote:
> On 28/11/13 11:21, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:13:44 +0000 Tom Hacohen > > <tom.haco...@samsung.com> said: > > > >> On 28/11/13 11:08, Jérémy Zurcher wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I wanted to do some tests before rising my voice, > >>> here they are http://cgit.asynk.ch/eo_tokenizer/ > >>> > >>> this is POC, http://www.complang.org/ragel/ based tokenizer which > >>> does not all but most of the job. First time I play with ragel, > >>> had much fun!! > >>> > >>> about the .eo file syntax: > >>> YAML is easier than JSON to write and read, but imho both are more > >>> machine than human oriented. > >>> I think we should to stick to C syntax it should ease everybody's > >>> pain and hopefully avoid wrong formatting, editor annoyance... > >> > >> The problem with c syntax, is that we'll never be "there". That is, > >> we'll be stuck in the land of similar enough to call it C, but > >> incomplete enough to be annoying and confusing. > >> > >> Just like vim mode is on most editors. > >> > >> We need very specific things that the C syntax doesn't support > >> (that's why we need .eo files in the first place), so instead of > >> hacking around something that wasn't designed for it. Why not make > >> something new that is simple, easy to learn (i.e immediate > >> transition from c) and designed for the task? > > > > it definitely not json then. json was no more designed for this > > than the c syntax and a tokenizer we speak of. it is far more > > limited than a proper parser/tokenizer that reads c-like syntax. > > instead now you have string quote hell and in the end you start to > > write custom parsing for strings inside json... > > > > Yeah, so no json either. We need to come up with something easy, > familiar and good. Lua? I'm too ill right now to offer any actual arguments. But since there are plans to incorporate more Lua into EFL anyway, I would suggest that the less different languages people need to know to get into EFL programming, the better. Lower barrier of entry and all that. Generally Lua is easy, what I just said fits into "familiar", and some of us think it's good. -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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