On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:09:45AM +0100, Daniel Hulme wrote:
: qX ::= q:x:y:z;
:
: as a simple, argumentless word macro.
: But would that DWIM when I come to write
:
: qX(stuff, specifically not an adverb argument);
:
: ?
Just looking at it, I would expect qX() to call a function.
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:15:24PM -0700, jerry gay wrote:
: according to S02, under 'Literals', generalized quotes may now take
: adverbs. in that section is the following comment:
:
: snip
: [Conjectural: Ordinarily the colon is required on adverbs, but the
: quote declarator allows you to
qX ::= q:x:y:z;
as a simple, argumentless word macro.
But would that DWIM when I come to write
qX(stuff, specifically not an adverb argument);
?
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