From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kyle Meyer Subject: Re: Comments on process template syntax In-Reply-To: References: <871rrdthmz.fsf@elephly.net> <87lfpjswla.fsf@elephly.net> <6be1d411b6caab4e91b67fd24bde5095afb65bc5.camel@gnu.org> <87k153spu3.fsf@elephly.net> <874kw6slwm.fsf@elephly.net> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:29:05 +0000 Message-ID: <87d0at129q.fsf@kyleam.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: zimoun , Ricardo Wurmus Cc: gwl-devel@gnu.org List-ID: zimoun writes: > Hi Ricardo, > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 11:12, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > If I understand correctly, you are proposing this sugar: > > 1. >> process list-file-template (with filename) > > 2. >> process list-file-template >> with filename > > 3. >> process list-file-template : with filename > > > The 1. and 2. appear to me nicer that the 3.. > > As I said, I am not a fan of colon ':' extra space. > And it is counterintuitive with plain regular English: the rule is > "word: space" and not "word space : space". > (Note that it is not the case in French where the rule is "word > half-space : space".) Those are just different ways you can write the same thing in Wisp: Feeding this --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- process list-file-template (with filename) process list-file-template with filename process list-file-template : with filename --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- to wisp2lisp gives: (process list-file-template (with filename)) (process list-file-template (with filename)) (process list-file-template (with filename))