> Do be aware that the \ splice thing is not yet officially part of > sweet-expressions; dwheeler made a draft of the splice rules but hasn't > made a 0.3 sweet-expressions spec including it.
Do you mean the one here? - http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/sweet-expressions.html > - If it's the last character of the line (other than 0 or more > spaces/tabs), then the newline is considered a space, and the next > line's indentation is irrelevant. This continues the line. (Note > that comments cannot follow, because that would be confusing.) This sounds quite interesting, because it is a standard known to many people (from bash and python :) ). > - If it's between items on a line, it's interpreted as a line break to > the same indentation level. This sounds quite, though. It gives \ doublemeaning. And not being able to add comments behing the \ looks rather like trying to avoid making the ambiguity introduced by the inline \. I’m already not completely happy about using . for groups (because it introduces additional rules - but it already is a special syntax element, so it does not hurt too much). But at least in elisp, the following is valid syntax: (defun \ () (message "\\")) (\ ) This is not, though: (\). So I am pretty certain, that (defun \ () ()) just defines " " to be a function… though I’m not sure about that. (insert (stringp '(\ \ ))) complains that it is nil… Notes on that: http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/elisp-manual-21-2.8/html_node/elisp_22.html > - Otherwise, if it's at the beginning of a line (after 0+ > spaces/tabs), it's ignored - but the first non-whitespace > character's indentation level is used. It allows making structure with whitespace which is not interpreted by the parser. And I think that makes it ambigous. > For now I think we should investigate the following alternatives: > > 1. \ = GROUP = SPLICE, remove SPLICE-at-the-eol rule. > > 2. . = GROUP, \ = SPLICE > 2.1. remove SPLICE-at-the-eol rule. > 2.2. don't remove SPLICE-at-the-eol rule. or: 2.3 remove SPLICE inline rule Best wishes, Arne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
