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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: gwl-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: what colour should the bikeshed have?
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 00:24:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y31qsjtp.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1dft711.fsf@elephly.net>


Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> I think “procedure # bash {” is a bit long for a very common use case.
> Since “# bash {…}” is special syntax implemented with a reader macro I’m
> not sure if or how we can do better.
>
> I think we might be able to do this:
>
>   process: sleep
>     packages "coreutils"
>     # bash {
>       echo "Sleeping..."
>       sleep 10
>     }

This works now since commit da8e0308587d62a06169dacdc41e86519a1ffa54.
Code snippets (either produced with the “#” syntax or without) are the
only thing that can make use of this special rule at the moment.  Plain
S-expressions need to use “procedure '(…)”, because I don’t really want
to match on “quote” and “quasiquote” at macro expansion time.

I didn’t implement special handling for G-expressions either, but that’s
possible in principle.

I’ll rename “procedure” to “run” next.

--
Ricardo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-24 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-21 13:14 what colour should the bikeshed have? Ricardo Wurmus
2019-06-24 10:23 ` zimoun
2019-06-24 13:33   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-06-25 15:32   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-06-24 22:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]

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