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Subject: Re: what colour should the bikeshed have?
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> I think =E2=80=9Cprocedure # bash {=E2=80=9D is a bit long for a very com=
mon use case.
> Since =E2=80=9C# bash {=E2=80=A6}=E2=80=9D is special syntax implemented =
with a reader macro I=E2=80=99m
> 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 =E2=80=9C#=E2=80=9D syntax or witho=
ut) are the
only thing that can make use of this special rule at the moment.  Plain
S-expressions need to use =E2=80=9Cprocedure '(=E2=80=A6)=E2=80=9D, because=
 I don=E2=80=99t really want
to match on =E2=80=9Cquote=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cquasiquote=E2=80=9D at mac=
ro expansion time.

I didn=E2=80=99t implement special handling for G-expressions either, but t=
hat=E2=80=99s
possible in principle.

I=E2=80=99ll rename =E2=80=9Cprocedure=E2=80=9D to =E2=80=9Crun=E2=80=9D ne=
xt.

--
Ricardo