Are you considering a form of compile-time expression or quasi-quotes? On 29 August 2014 11:35, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys > > we are looking at STON and ObjectLiterals with Christophe and for handling > metadata. > > > And I was brainstorming.... I was wondering if it would be possible to have > a bit more use of self evaluating > > for example > 1@3 > #k -> 2 instead of (Association #k 123) > > > my brainstorming is how could we minimize new syntactic constructs and still > support a literal object format. > So object literal cover that so may be this is good. > > 1@3 as (Point 1 3) > and > #k -> 123 as (Association #k 123) > > So I'm not clear but this is interesting to think about it. > I would like to have also a dictionary literal syntax.... but this another > story. > > Stef > > PS: Sven I added support for Association into the ObjectLiteral project to > see how it works. > > > > > > > > > > I took Igor's initial code and created a new project: > > http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~SvenVanCaekenberghe/ObjectLiterals/ > > and I added ObjectLiteralParser to convert any Character Stream or String > into a Smalltalk Literal Array and eventually into an Object. > > This proof of concept moves the ObjectLiteral format/notation away from the > Smalltalk compiler and will help us discuss more concretely the actual > details of the specification (which is still not 100% finished). > > I also added 12 unit tests and cleaned up the code and comments. > > Please have a look at the code. > > This is one of the tests: > > ObjectLiteralParserTests>>#testMixed1 > | input output | > input := ' > #(Array > 1 > foo > #''foo-#bar'' > true > false > nil > 3.14159 > -100 > ''string'' > (#OrderedCollection 7 8 9) > #(Set 10) > (Dictionary > x 1 > y 2) ) '. > output := { > 1. > #foo. > #'foo-#bar'. > true. > false. > nil. > 3.14159. > -100. > 'string'. > OrderedCollection withAll: #(7 8 9). > Set with: 10. > Dictionary newFromPairs: #(x 1 y 2 ). }. > self assert: (self parserOn: input) nextObjectLiteral equals: output > > I like this format, its simplicity and elegance is appealing, it offers > distinctive advantages in the Smalltalk context while its slight readability > disadvantage is acceptable. Like any format it is a compromise and a > tradeoff, but a rather good one. > > Regards, > > Sven > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe > http://stfx.eu > Smalltalk is the Red Pill > >
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