On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 11:46:32 AM UTC-10, Shrutarshi Basu wrote: > > > This is suboptimal because I am writing the title and the URL as strings > and packing them into the Racket arguments component. Ideally, I would like > to be able to write something like: > > ◊essay[Title](http://url-to-this-essay.html){The blurb for this essay} > <http://twitter.com/basus> >
Pollen borrows its syntax from the Scribble language, and this is a limitation of Scribble syntax. I've made this same suggestion on a couple occasions, most recently last week. Here's the explanation from Scribble's designer why he didn't do it that way: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/tv6ENRkG7tg/9QwNwdyFDgAJ I've come to think of it as analogous to an XML tag that has attributes at the front, and then the rest. Your solution will work: > ◊essay{ > ◊title{Title} > ◊url{http://url-to-this-essay.html} > ◊blurb{The blurb for this essay} > } So would something like this (because ◊-expressions can appear anywhere) ◊essay[ #:title "Title" ;; or ◊list{Title} if this should be a full X-expression #:url "http://url-to-this-essay.html"; #:blurb ◊list{The blurb for this essay} ] Or a blend of these two: ◊essay[ "Title" "http://url-to-this-essay.html"; ]{The blurb for this essay} ◊essay[ #:title "Title" #:url "http://url-to-this-essay.html"; ]{The blurb for this essay} This would also work: ◊essay{ Title http://url-to-this-essay.html The blurb for this essay } If you attach to `essay` a mini-decoder that unpacks these as "positional" arguments. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pollen" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
