Re: [Factor-talk] Communication from the KLF

[Slava P. <sl...@fa...>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Joe Groff <ar...@gm...> wrote:

> I sympathize with your desire to Huffman-code common source patterns.
> But I think it's a really bad idea to start introducing sub-word-level
> syntax. The whitespace-delimited word is the atomic level of data in
> most Factor code, and breaking that rule should only be considered in
> exceptionally special circumstances; it'll confuse new users who have
> to learn "whitespace separates everything, except in method stack
> effects, typed tuple slots, and all the libraries following their bad
> example." It'll also make parsing and writing tools for dealing with
> Factor code (editor support, etc.) more complex.


I agree. I'd like to find a syntax for multi-method stack effects which
doesn't involve sub-word tokenization.


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> I do agree with you that putting quotation marks around the tuple
> names is whacked.


Yup. They're no longer a part of the extended tuple syntax I'm working on.

Slava