It is obviously possible to change the semantics of leading period. I am
hesitant to add yet another operator; you may disagree but I really tried to
make it a short list. I also really wanted to fix the notation, but leading
period is basically never used so that is probably not really a problem.
Let me think about it.
On November 21, 2014 4:38:13 PM EST, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de>
wrote:
>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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