The same thing if you leave out a trailing '>' in the alternative proposal.
You get an error on the line. Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Kenny Products Company, LLC 55 Main Street Voice: (203)426-7166 Newtown, CT 06470 Fax: (203)426-9138 http://www.MarkKenny.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Elson Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 2:25 PM To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] An Alternative Syntax Paul Fox wrote: >kenneth wrote: > > > > Please see: > > > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?AlternativeNamedParameterSyntax > ... > > 2 -- All those '$' characters are confusing (see flowsnake.ngc in nc_files > > in HEAD for the example). > ... > > 2 -- I took part of this comment to mean that the '$' characters are ugly. > > Because they are so blocky, they catch the eye and make the code harder to > > read (for a human). I had originally wanted to use [] characters, but > > (someone else) noticed that #[sqrt[#1]] is legal syntax. That would have > > required more lookahead in the parser than is currently supported. The > > alternative uses <>, instead. > > > Also, what hapens if you MISS a needed $? Seems like it might make a big mess. Like leaving out a closing "end comment" symbol in c. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
