On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 1:00 AM, David A. Wheeler <dwhee...@dwheeler.com> wrote:
>> > 2. It can be used to highlight indentation for whatever purpose that may
>> > serve.
>>
>> To illustrate #2, consider the following contrivedly complicated code
>> (but I think you'd end up with similarly complicated code after
>> developing a project for a while).
>>
>> define foo(x)
>> define bar(y z)
>> . let
>> . \
>> . . quux frobnicate(y z)
>> . . quuux frobnicate(z y)
>
> To clarify, the rule you're thinking is:
> "When processing indentation, beginning at the left-hand-side, a period is
> equivalent to a space character until the first character that is not a
> period, blank, or tab."
>
> I think that's a good (experimental) rule.
Yes, I think this is a good rule.
With ". in indent = SPACE" we can draw simple stuff in the indent space:
define foo(x)
...define bar(y)
. let
. ...\
. . v {x + y}
. ... w {x - y}
... {v * w}
bar
Okay, I'll look at implementing it in the parser spec.
Sincerely,
AmkG
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