From: Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com>
To: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org,
readable-discuss <readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: wisp literal array syntax for Guile, a good idea?
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:20:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <098670CE-873B-4DCC-A111-A88044861BBD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mv3rgrwk.fsf@web.de>
> On Nov 12, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Wisp¹ as general syntax is pretty much done. The releases this year only
> provided bug fixes and additional examples. A procedure definition looks
> like this:
>
> define : hello who
> format #f "Hello ~a!\n"
> . who
>
> From experience with building tools with Wisp² I am pretty happy with
> its syntax; it feels like a sweet spot between minimal syntax-overhead
> and producing easily readable code (leaning a bit more towards minimal
> syntax-overhead than readable/sweet).
>
> But there is one Guile-specific feature where it is lacking: When
> defining a procedure in Guile, you can add properties by creating a
> literal array as line — or as second line if the first line is a literal
> string that then serves as documentation. This can be used to define
> tests.³ Then a full fledged Hello World! looks like this:
>
> define : hello who
> . "Say hello to WHO"
> . #((tests
> (test-equal "Hello World!\n"
> (hello "World"))))
> format #f "Hello ~a!\n"
> . who
Do you have a syntax for vector literals? If not, why can't you just write
define : hello who
"Say hello to WHO"
vector : tests
test-equal "hello World"
. hello "World
format #f "Hello ~a!\n"
. who
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-12 18:34 wisp literal array syntax for Guile, a good idea? Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-11-12 21:20 ` Matt Wette [this message]
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2017-11-12 22:38 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
[not found] ` <87k1yvglih.fsf-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-12 22:58 ` Alan Manuel Gloria
[not found] ` <CAF+kUQW-m2=OPB1Fjf9_r0ftBj5d_c4NSag-r+HfFtkLEvoomw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-13 17:29 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
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