Re: [Pharo-dev] [squeak-dev] Re: [vwnc] Does anyone have a "new" string literal?

2017-03-02 Thread DavidLeibs
Hi Doru, I understand your argument and I have heard it for years as to the reason not to make a programming language as good as what we have known how to do since the 1970s. I really don't have a very big dog in this fight (meaning that I don't care all that much whether these features end up in

Re: [Pharo-dev] [squeak-dev] Re: [vwnc] Does anyone have a "new" string literal?

2017-03-01 Thread DavidLeibs
Let me add some more motivation and background for the discussion. I responded to stephar...@free.fr questions by mail yesterday but it didn't wind up on the forum. Sorry about that. http://www.erights.org/elang/quasi/overview.html Provides very good background for quasi-liberals. I believe this

Re: [Pharo-dev] [squeak-dev] Re: [vwnc] Does anyone have a "new" string literal?

2017-02-28 Thread DavidLeibs
The ES6 design is sound and if you are in a hurry to get the capability it is a great way to go. Once you start using it and get a taste for quasi-literal little languages you will find that you want more. Having a quasi-literal that let's you name the little language to parse you open a very int

Re: [Pharo-dev] [squeak-dev] Re: [vwnc] Does anyone have a "new" string literal?

2017-02-27 Thread DavidLeibs
I realize this is a few years old but I wanted to give an update on my quest for quasi-literals. I did a complete quasi-literal framework for Java when I moved over to Oracle Labs. It used the annotation compiler + a few tweeks to the scanner and parser. You could extend the name space of the qu