@ ZyX: compile it? hell. compile to JS and use a JS language. JS is known by everyone today! Don't reinvent the wheel VimL is no longer what it should be... :( We should push an existing language. We don't want to force the world to learn yet another DSL for configuring editors only.
If you want to optimize something: Add a regex native type so that regex don't have to be recompiled on each comparison, please. This would speed up quite a lot. Why JavaScript? Because many advanced implementations already exist. Because most languages can be compiled to JS (because everyone wants to target browsers anyway) ... (My 2 cents on this) Excerpts from Charles Strahan's message of Mon Jul 11 20:27:17 +0200 2011: > Ultimately, I want ViEmu (or an alternative Visual Studio plugin) to have > proper (relatively complete) support for VimL scripts. Hell. Tell me why. There are many nice languages available for .net which are ways superior to VimL (which was ahead of its time 30 years ago..) .. Also think about whether you only want VimL or VimL and Vim's api (:h functions). If you want all of them .. good luck. I don't think this makes much sense except functions like getline or getcursor. Most features will be impossible (or very hard) to implement unless you're going to spend months on it. Be aware about VimL's exec command. Very often the VimL API is poorly designed. Eg you have to do: exec 'set rtp+='.escape(path,',') or the like. it should have been: call SetRTPath([path]++oldpath) You don't want to implement all this (sh..) > I'm sure it would be a ton of work, but it looks like good fun. VimL is simple so you can get it done. But you seriously should have a look at all those other languages such as F# first. They should be as productive as VimL if you think about it being a DSL. And they are way superior if you want to get more things done. Of course - that's only my point of view :) You may have your own valid differing judgments. Marc Weber -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
