"Busier" I agree with, but it's marginal; grouping is lightweight as syntax
goes. Parens (1) already work, (2) consistently mean "keep these things
together" in a variety of computing environments, (3) have match
highlighting support in many editors which make it easy, given one end of
the parenthesized subexpression, to find the other end. So I'm not sure I
agree with the latter, especially if indentation is used effectively.
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 6:53:54 AM UTC-5, Christoph Ortner wrote:
>
>
> I think parenthesis are "ok", but only just. They make the code busier and
> more difficult to read.
> Christoph
>
>
> On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 01:21:45 UTC+1, David Gold wrote:
>>
>> @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
>>>>
>>>
