Re: [F-Script-talk] Syntax suggestion

[Todd B. <tbl...@ma...>]

Smalltalk has a comma - it is used for concatenation.
'foo',bar','baz'
yields 'foobarbaz'

On Sep 14, 2006, at 2:24 AM, stephen white wrote:

> Hi Philippe and others,
>
> Yes, the language writer's horror rears its ugly head... it's syntax
> suggestion time! :)
>
> Many times, I'll be burrowing through some object references on the
> command line, and I find myself having to enclose everything I've
> typed in ()'s. By the time I get to what I'm after, Smalltalk is
> looking very much like LISP!
>
> So, just as sentences have commas as well as full-stops, perhaps
> Smalltalk needs a comma! Here is how it could operate:
>
> 	Current:
>
> 		object4 setMapX:((object7 valueForKey:'trackpoints') at:432)  
> latitude.
>
> 	Proposed:
>
> 		object4 setMapX:object7 valueForKey:'trackpoints', at:432, latitude.
>
> 	Multiple arguments:
>
> 		object4 addDepth:object4 depth width:(adjust valueForKey:'width')
> height:object4 height.
>
> 		object4 addDepth:object4 depth width:adjust valueForKey:'width',
> height:object4 height.
>
> The lexical opposite of cascading? The comma would be matched to the
> start of the current section, like cascading, but update with results
> instead of retaining the first object. I can't seem to find any
> ambiguous cases, except when defining arrays in { ,, }.
>
> Whether it is a comma or some other syntax, there does appear to be
> some opportunity for replacing the nested ()'s with something more
> readable.
>
> Steve.
>
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