Re: OT: return do, not, use, this

2017-12-23 Thread Terry Brown
On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 09:35:38 -0800 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Terry Brown > wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 06:16:23 -0800 > > "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > > > > > ​Thanks for raising this topic. I have been meaning to say a few > > > deprecating words about g.

Re: vs-eval-replace

2017-12-23 Thread Terry Brown
On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 09:45:15 -0800 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Terry Brown > wrote: > > > An addition to the vs-* commands, vs-eval-replace, replaces the > > selected body text with its evaluated form. > > > > ​Thanks for this. Are you thinking of this as a k

Re: vs-eval-replace

2017-12-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 9:45:17 AM UTC-8, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Terry Brown > wrote: > >> An addition to the vs-* commands, vs-eval-replace, replaces the >> selected body text with its evaluated form. >> > > ​Thanks for this. > Oh, and well

Re: vs-eval-replace

2017-12-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Terry Brown wrote: > An addition to the vs-* commands, vs-eval-replace, replaces the > selected body text with its evaluated form. > ​Thanks for this. Are you thinking of this as a kind of repl ​(read-eval-print-loop)? I am. Edward -- You received this mess

Re: OT: return do, not, use, this

2017-12-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Terry Brown wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 06:16:23 -0800 > "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > > > ​Thanks for raising this topic. I have been meaning to say a few > > deprecating words about g.Bunch myself.​ > > What don't you like about g.Bunch? > ​I don't like that it'

Re: OT: return do, not, use, this

2017-12-23 Thread Terry Brown
On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 06:16:23 -0800 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > ​Thanks for raising this topic. I have been meaning to say a few > deprecating words about g.Bunch myself.​ What don't you like about g.Bunch? g.Bunch was not what I was speaking against. The pattern I'm finding most awkward for ext

Re: OT: return do, not, use, this

2017-12-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Terry Brown wrote: Twice in the log links to nodes branch I had to work around tuples as > stand-ins for light weight types. > ​I agree. And I don't think this is an off topic discussion. I have almost always come to regret g.Bunch. In my experience, any slig

Re: ENB: Code generation for javascript

2017-12-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Saturday, December 23, 2017 at 5:56:02 AM UTC-8, Edward K. Ream wrote: *Summary* >> >> The requirement that no node contain multiple @others directives means >> that a function that defines multiple interior functions must split those >> functions into multiple direct children. >> >> The cont

Re: ENB: Code generation for javascript

2017-12-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Friday, December 22, 2017 at 12:49:21 PM UTC-8, Edward K. Ream wrote: > 2. The question about how faithfully to recreate (round-trip) existing code is fraught with unexpected and vexing difficulties. The present importers all carefully deal with the issues of line breaks and leading whitespa