Re: [fonc] Magic Ink and Killing Math

2012-03-10 Thread BGB
On 3/8/2012 9:32 PM, David Barbour wrote: Bret Victor's work came to my attention due to a recent video, Inventing on Principle http://vimeo.com/36579366 If you haven't seen this video, watch it. It's especially appropriate for the FoNC audience. although I don't normally much agree with

Re: [fonc] Magic Ink and Killing Math

2012-03-10 Thread Wesley Smith
most notable thing I did recently (besides some fiddling with getting a new JIT written), was adding a syntax for block-strings. I used [[ ... ]] rather than triple-quotes (like in Python), mostly as this syntax is more friendly to nesting, and is also fairly unlikely to appear by accident,

Re: [fonc] Magic Ink and Killing Math

2012-03-10 Thread Ondřej Bílka
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 01:21:42AM -0800, Wesley Smith wrote: most notable thing I did recently (besides some fiddling with getting a new JIT written), was adding a syntax for block-strings. I used [[ ... ]] rather than triple-quotes (like in Python), mostly as this syntax is more friendly

[fonc] Block-Strings / Heredocs (Re: Magic Ink and Killing Math)

2012-03-10 Thread BGB
On 3/10/2012 2:21 AM, Wesley Smith wrote: most notable thing I did recently (besides some fiddling with getting a new JIT written), was adding a syntax for block-strings. I used[[ ... ]] rather than triple-quotes (like in Python), mostly as this syntax is more friendly to nesting, and is also