From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: gwl-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: objections to short syntax for code snippets?
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 16:31:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ1DPTrevy5B_sHTkJMvu88SMHTSCaEHqw4V+4oURE_6Cw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eev9qdcj.fsf@elephly.net>
Hi Ricardo,
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 16:10, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> So my use of the dot is very suggestive, but there’s no way we can turn
> it into a dash.
I find your suggestion really appealing. :-)
Because it clarifies the description. And I read workflows more often
than I write them.
> That said … macrology can be used to assign the dash special meaning (or
> no meaning at all), but I’m not convinced that this would be a good
> idea. Lists are easier in Lisp compared to YAML — and thanks to what I
> call “implicit lists” for the “inputs” and “outputs” fields you don’t
> even need to start them with “list”. It seems futile to try to make
> lists more complicated by requiring that items begin with a dash.
I understand. I was just a random comment when dequeueing all your
cool proposals.
Thank you for improving.
Cheers,
simon
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-04 13:05 objections to short syntax for code snippets? Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-04 13:31 ` Roel Janssen
2020-02-05 14:40 ` zimoun
2020-02-05 15:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-02-05 15:21 ` Pjotr Prins
2020-02-05 15:31 ` zimoun [this message]
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