The real JavaScript 'character wall'.
On 27 December 2017 at 21:30, Sebastian Cholewa <
sebastian.chol...@interia.eu> wrote:
> On PC writing “§” character wouldn’t be convenient, as it’s not on
> keyboard. One would has to copy and paste it. I see this as problematic.
> Writing code should not require any extra acrobatics with set of characters.
>
> To be more constructive, available characters are:
> !@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{};:'",<.>/?
>
> W dniu .12.2017 o 21:56 Tamás Halasi <trusted.tom...@gmail.com> pisze:
>
>
> Hmm I see. I'll definitely remove the multiple ? marks and keep it one
>> level.
>> And change the # to something else... For example, §.
>> With these changes, is there anything which should be changed?
>>
>> 2017-12-27 21:17 GMT+01:00 Isiah Meadows <isiahmead...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> My concern: I get the concept, and could see how at the first level
>>> (e.g. `#? + ?`) it could be useful, but I can tell you that this
>>> doesn't look especially obvious, and starts to look almost like the
>>> line noise of some Perl or APL [1]/J [2]/etc.:
>>>
>>> ```
>>> // Example 1:
>>> let foo = #foo(#???:??)
>>>
>>> // Example 2:
>>> let constant = ##??
>>>
>>> // Example 3:
>>> let makeAdder = ##?+??
>>> ```
>>>
>>> And I agree with Mike in that it does remind me of De Bruijn indices.
>>> Those are nice in binary encodings, but they tend to start looking
>>> like line noise after sufficient depth. (An entire esoteric language
>>> has been formed based on this whole thing: Binary Lambda Calculus
>>> [3].)
>>>
>>> Oh, and this will most *certainly* conflict with the stage 3 private
>>> property proposal:
>>>
>>> ```js
>>> let bar = () => console.log("outer")
>>> class Foo {
>>> #bar = () => console.log("inner")
>>>
>>> method() {
>>> // Should this return a thunk or log "inner"?
>>> list.map(##bar(1, 2, ?))
>>> }
>>> }
>>> ```
>>>
>>> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
>>> [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)
>>> [3]: http://web.archive.org/web/20161019165606/https://en.
>>> wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_lambda_calculus
>>>
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>>>
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>>> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Tamás Halasi <trusted.tom...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> This sentence ends abruptly. What would this proposal improve?
>>> >
>>> > Oops, I accidentally pressed Send...
>>> > So, it would improve functional programming in general, the examples
>>> are
>>> in
>>> > the README.
>>> >
>>> >> Is this lambdas with De Bruijn indices?
>>> >
>>> > Hmm, I haven't heard of them yet, but by looking at the surface, they
>>> seems
>>> > to be similar.
>>> >
>>> >> You have ?? and ??? for referring to outer layers. Is there no
>>> ambiguity
>>> >> there?
>>> >
>>> > That's a very good point! I haven't thought of that. I can't think of a
>>> > solution, the lookahead is indeed very bad. I opened an issue. I think
>>> the
>>> > notation (for accessing arguments from outer layers) will have to be
>>> changed
>>> > / removed.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for the feedback! :)
>>> >
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