I love the new '{{' and '}}' ...
what are the chances we could bring '..' back as a statement separator, at
least inside these new double curly braces?
Often I have a bunch of really short lines that I would love to just stick
on one line, like this demo code from the terminal library I'm working on:
while. -. keyp'' do.
goxy xy [ bgc 4 [ fgc 9
puts '['
fgc 15
puts 4{. s=.1|.s
fgc 9
puts']'
sleep 150
end.
I can easily stick these on one line with @ or [: but the code winds up
feeling very backward, so I find myself just using newlines and wasting a
lot of vertical space on my screen.
One answer here is to make a mini-language for terminal operations that I
can just pass as a string, but there are other places where I find myself
wishing I could just write a sequence of expressions (evaluated
right-to-left as usual) but all on one line, and sequence them from left to
right... (I use K at work, and this is a pretty natural style)
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