I wonder how ~[foobar] would work
In Ruby and Elixir I always try to take advantage of the flexible sigil
delimiter syntax to hint at types: [, ] for arrays, " for strings, | for
code and multiline strings like SQL, and {, } for nonliterals like Regex
and Times.
We could also reclaim ’ as a macro quote syntax.
Haha, I thought of that but feared it would cause even more newcomer
confusion. ;D
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On September 23, 2016 at 11:08:47 AM, Peter Hamilton (
peterghamil...@gmail.com) wrote:
We could also reclaim ' as a macro quote syntax. Just a thought.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:40 AM OvermindDL1 <overmind...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, I quite like that, I wonder how `~[foobar]` would work too...
>
>
> On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 11:17:09 AM UTC-6, Chris Keele wrote:
>>
>> I have no strong opinions on this–although I do hope that useful *'*
>> character
>> will eventually be reclaimed for some purpose. I assume inspecting
>> *'abc'* as *~c"abc"* implies that the usual newcomer confusion of
>> inspecting an integer list and seeing a 'string' will be a somewhat more
>> searchable problem, which is nice.
>>
>> I did want to observe that, now that I know you can create charlists with
>> sigils, I'll probably never use *'* again, because to me *~c[foobar]* is
>> much more representative of the underlying data structure. Perhaps this
>> could also be how it inspects, to enforce the 'list' connotation?
>>
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