Thanks Eliot,

2016-07-26 21:24 GMT+02:00 Eliot Miranda <[email protected]>:

> Hi Nicolai,
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> is this valid pragma syntax:
>>
>> foo
>>     <func: #operation arg: #+>
>>     ^ self
>>
>
> You could say it was ambiguous.  With the change to the syntax of binary
> selectors in recent years #+> is a binary selector, and so you need
> whitespace after the token to separate it from the closing >.
>

I was a bit supprised, why '+>' would be a binary selector, as  for example
greater-or-equal is ">=" and not "=>". But I like that we can define (any?)
combination as binary selector and create new ones like
=>
==>
or
-->



>
>
>> (note the closing angle and the +-symbol)
>>
>> The above code is what the pretty printer creates if you pretty-print
>> this code
>>
>
> IMO, the pretty printer is the thing that needs fixing.  If the last token
> in the pragma is a binary selector symbol literal then a space should be
> printed.
>

:( yes, but I don't like that we need to insert spaces.


>
>
>>
>> foo
>>     <func: #operation arg: #+ >
>>     ^ self
>>
>> (note the space between #+ and >
>>
>> Or a bug in the parser ?
>>
>> this pragma definition
>>     <func: #operation arg: #a>
>> seems to work.
>>
>
>
> _,,,^..^,,,_
> best, Eliot
>

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