This is the mail archive of the
guile@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the Guile project.
Re: Language translation proposal 1.4
- To: Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy dot com>
- Subject: Re: Language translation proposal 1.4
- From: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
- Date: 13 Aug 2000 17:32:06 +0300
- Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se>, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, gang-of-four at red-bean dot com
- Organization: who? me?
- References: <E13NpFa-00014f-00@mdj.nada.kth.se><20000813093043.A891@localhost>
Ian Bicking <ianb@colorstudy.com> writes:
> Should load also potentially take a :language argument? Maybe this is
> getting to be too many ways...
seems like a good idea to me, FWIW.
> > Normally, repl commands have the syntax
> >
> > ,COMMAND ARG1 ...
> >
> > Input starting with arbitrary amount of whitespace + a comma thus
> > works as an escape syntax.
> >
> > This syntax is probably compatible with all languages. (Note that we
> > don't need to activate the lexer of the language until we've checked
> > if the first non-whitespace char is a comma.)
>
> In Python, at least, it is important that whitespace at the beginning
> of the line is preserved. So it would be fine to check if the first
> non-whitespace character is a comma, but the whitespace needs to be
> preserved.
perhaps we could mandate that there be _no_ whitespace before the
comma for it to be special?
--
"Tools that are no good require more skill."