On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>
wrote:
> If longevity of language features is inversely proportionate to their
> value, C must be a total waste of time. :)
>
Ha -- of course I'm not suggesting that; anyone who wants to take away
repeat for each or URL syntax will have to fight me for them. I just think
there are so many more opportunities.
Basically any time a significant number of developers are expressing a
single concept in more than one line, that's an opportunity to create a
simpler, more powerful syntax. You know I could list hundreds of
possibilities, and the truth is that for every one of them, someone would
say "you want to do *what*?!" But if I'm clever, at least a few people
would say, "I'm tired of typing so much, that sounds awesome."
I can never post about this without throwing out a suggestion. How about
making item take an argument?
put item("|") 2 to 3 of item(";") 2 of
"test|this|thing;one|more|string|here;final|string"
puts "more|string"
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