Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2014, 18:34:25 schrieb David A. Wheeler: > It's possible to write code that is interpreted *identically* > on both wisp and sweet when indentation is enabled.
That’s cool!
> In sweet, a "." at the
> beginning of a line post-indent is basically ignored.
Would it be possible to generalize this, so sweet would also make the
full line a continuation instead of only ignoring the dot?
That would make many uses of \\ unnecessary, and wisp would then be
almost a subset of sweet.
> Thus, in both sweet and wisp:
> a b c
> d e
> . f
> g h
> becomes:
> (a b c
> (d e)
> f
> (g h))
> If wisp interpreted neoteric-expressions by default,
> then many more expressions work in both systems, e.g.:
> defun factorial()
> if {n <= 1}
> . 1
> {n * factorial{n - 1}}
That’s true, but then lines with a single element would be treated
differently than lines with multiple elements, and that is a gotcha I
want to avoid.
It hits you with things like newline
wisp:
define : hello
display "Hello World!"
newline
define : hello2 who
format #t "Hello ~A!\n" who
hello2 "wisp"
sweet:
define hello()
display "Hello World!"
newline()
hello()
define hello(who)
format #t "Hello ~A!\n" who
hello2 "sweet"
; or
hello2("sweet")
> So while neoteric-expressions provide two ways to write something,
> in practice, there's a "more readable" way that better expresses the purpose
> in each case.
It’s almost as if you had intentionally motivated a quote I found
yesterday but didn’t share because I didn’t know whether it would come
off as offensive. With that kind of (unintentional?) prep-work:
wisp-expressions are not as sweet as readable, but they KISS.
:-)
Best wishes,
Arne
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