Pavel Kouřil wrote on 03/09/2015 07:32:
Amendment 2. Make the ~> operator non-associative
Why? Once you read documentation about how the operator works and what it does, you will know it and writing the extra brackets seems superfluos. And woudn't this complicate the parser even more? Also, if you have no idea about functional programming whatsoever, this will be hard to grasp in any syntax form, but the syntax isn't the problem in that case (as I already said in previous email).
Yeah, maybe this one is just me - I just find right-associativity really hard to read, whatever it's purpose. Maybe it's because I've only ever read left-to-right languages.
As mentioned in a previous e-mail, when I look at "$a ~> $b ~> $c" it makes me think of a single chain where all the terms are somehow related, like "$a = $b = $c", rather than any kind of nesting. Maybe I'd get used to it, maybe it would be rare enough that I'd never need to.
So you are taking a syntax that's supposed to be short and "clean" and making it more complex by the amedments 3 and 4?
No, I'm trying to think of compromises which address constructive criticisms people have made of the current proposal, such as the variety of syntax forms, and the implicit scoping of variables.
To be clear, these are not demands or anything like that, just suggestions of how to move the discussion beyond "here's the proposal, take it or leave it".
Btw. about your previous email and this syntax ending your career - why would it?
That wasn't my e-mail, it was one I replied to. I'm not against this proposal, I'm genuinely trying to find ways forward with it.
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