First, a quick note: the Haskell "offside" rule works because it triggers on
specific keywords (e.g., "do", "let", "of", and "where"). I think it's
important for a *Lisp* that the semantics be *general* and not tied to a
semantic, as I've explained further elsewhere, so I don't think that appro
On Jan 23, 2013 11:03 PM, "Alan Manuel Gloria" wrote:
>
> Offside rule simply looks at the column of the first non-{ token after
> keywords "do", "let", "of", and "where", and memorizes that column,
> inserting the missing "{". Tokens starting at that column will have a
> ";" inserted before it (
On 1/24/13, Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin wrote:
> Bah! Mobile gmail ate my indentation AND many newlines! Sorry.
> Hope this copy is sent correctly.
> Converted examples to fixed-width font to make up for the noise.
>
> On Jan 2, 2013 7:15 PM, "David A. Wheeler" wrote:
>>
>> Ben Booth:
>> > There wa
Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin:
> Consider now a notation opposite to Z where things are *never* implicitly
> grouped into lists. I'm not proposing this is usable, only as food for
> thought.
Very different approach, thanks for posting.
I think your list of the *problems* of the bullet approach puts th
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On Jan 2, 2013 7:15 PM, "David A. Wheeler" wrote:
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> Ben Booth:
> > There was an interesting language that made the rounds on reddit
[forgot mailing list in reply, yet again]
On 1/3/13, Ben Booth wrote: > There was an
interesting language that made the rounds on reddit > /r/programming a few
days ago: > > http://chrisdone.com/z/> > Reddit discussion page: > >
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15r6tb/z_a_tiny_strict_
On 1/3/13, Ben Booth wrote:
> There was an interesting language that made the rounds on reddit
> /r/programming a few days ago:
>
> http://chrisdone.com/z/
>
> Reddit discussion page:
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15r6tb/z_a_tiny_strict_impure_dynamically_typed_curried/
>
> It's
Ben Booth:
> There was an interesting language that made the rounds on reddit
> /r/programming a few days ago:
>
> http://chrisdone.com/z/
>
> Reddit discussion page:
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15r6tb/z_a_tiny_strict_impure_dynamically_typed_curried/
>
> It's an indentati
There was an interesting language that made the rounds on reddit /r/programming
a few days ago:
http://chrisdone.com/z/
Reddit discussion page:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15r6tb/z_a_tiny_strict_impure_dynamically_typed_curried/
It's an indentation-based lisp-like language, al
