Re: [Readable-discuss] wisp and readable - common expressions

2014-11-21 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag, 21. November 2014, 19:31:54 schrieb David A. Wheeler: > David A. Wheeler: > > wisp: > > define : hello > > display "Hello World!" > > newline > > define : hello2 who > > format #t "Hello ~A!\n" who > > If you're using wisp you probably do *not* want to use > a

Re: [Readable-discuss] wisp and readable - common expressions

2014-11-21 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag, 21. November 2014, 18:48:16 schrieb David A. Wheeler: > It is obviously possible to change the semantics of leading period. > I am hesitant to add yet another operator; you may disagree but I > really tried to make it a short list. I know you did. Every single additional operator came

Re: [Readable-discuss] wisp and readable - common expressions

2014-11-21 Thread David A. Wheeler
David A. Wheeler: > > If wisp interpreted neoteric-expressions by default, > > then many more expressions work in both systems... On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:38:13 +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > That’s true, but then lines with a single element would be treated > differently than lines with mu

Re: [Readable-discuss] wisp and readable - common expressions

2014-11-21 Thread David A. Wheeler
It is obviously possible to change the semantics of leading period. I am hesitant to add yet another operator; you may disagree but I really tried to make it a short list. I also really wanted to fix the notation, but leading period is basically never used so that is probably not really a prob

Re: [Readable-discuss] wisp and readable - common expressions

2014-11-21 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2014, 18:34:25 schrieb David A. Wheeler: > It's possible to write code that is interpreted *identically* > on both wisp and sweet when indentation is enabled. That’s cool! > In sweet, a "." at the > beginning of a line post-indent is basically ignored. Would it be possi

Re: [Readable-discuss] wisp now defaults to activating curly-infix

2014-11-21 Thread Arne Bab.
At Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:46:54 -0500 (EST), dwheeler wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:48:28 +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide > wrote: > > It’s crazy to think that nowadays it’s actually possible to do > > > > guile -L . --language=wisp tests/factorial.w > > > > and have guile execute the file