@Ben: as has been noted elsewhere in this thread, you can use parens to
this end:
julia> function foo(a, b, c, d, e, f)
if (a > b
|| c > d
|| e > f)
println("Foo for you.")
end
end
foo (generic function with 1 method)
julia> foo(1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5)
Foo for you.
Is there a reason this is significantly worse than what you described?
On Monday, June 15, 2015 at 5:54:56 PM UTC-4, Ben Arthur wrote:
>
> in addition to adhering to mathematical typsetting conventions, permitting
> binary operators to be on the following line would make it easier to
> comment out sub-expressions. for example,
>
> if a>b
> || c>d
> || e>f
> end
>
> could become
>
> if a>b
> # || c>d
> || e>f
> end
>
> i'm not advocating for a mandatory line continuation character. that
> would be terrible. but changing julia to look at the preceding line if the
> current line doesn't make sense by itself would be great.
>
> ben
>
>
>
> On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 3:35:50 PM UTC-4, Christoph Ortner wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just to reiterate a comment I made above: the convention in mathematical
>> typesetting is
>> b
>> + c
>> and not
>> b +
>> c
>>
>> this is the main reason I have (more than once) fallen into this trap.
>> Anyhow, I will try to use brackets for a while and see how I like it.
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>
