On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure I'm right to ask this but here goes...
Jan: you *should* ask. You should feel free to ask in general, but especially in this case, because this is a case where inexperienced gut responses are very likely to be revealing. > Is using indenting an apparently good idea that has some unexpected > downside? I'm not rejecting indenting. I'm just trying to have one conversation at a time. The two downsides that *I* see to indenting are: 1. In an expression language it's a little trickier to implement, and I need to think that through before I "buy in". I am encouraged that F# has made it work. 2. It seems to break cut and paste pretty badly, and it does seem to make auto-indenting much harder. The emacs python mode, to me, has some very quirky behavior. Certainly if we *do* use spacing as block delimiter, we will also support explicit delimiting. > I understand that BitC is not going to have macros of any sort as part > of the language... Not in R1, but that is not off the table for a subsequent revision. shap _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
