On 17/08/06, Brian Hulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Literal highlighting in the editor would make it clear that x-2 === x (-2).
I think a basic issue is that at the moment it is strange that non-negative
numbers can be specified as literals but negative numbers can't - they can
only get in through the "back door" of evaluation - which just doesn't seem
right.

You also can't specify string literals: they're sugar for
'a':'b':'c':[]. You seem to be arguing that syntactic sugar, and by
extension, a small core language, is bad.

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-David House, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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