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Post by yoz-y » Sat, Jan 13, 2018, 7:29 AM UTC

amyjess wrote: post #71

yoz-y wrote: post #32

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It is always good to not have possible ambiguity in a language though. A classic example is a C++ line such as: a ** b Before you know if a and b are variable names or type names, you do not know whether this line is a variable declaration or a multiplication or a syntax error. My point is that some keywords could be used as identifiers in some situations, but this might not always be the case. One option would be to…

> Or maybe a special keyword decoration. What you're asking for is called stropping [0], and it's actually a very old concept going back to the early days of Algol. Algol didn't have any concept of reserved words. Instead, keywords were typographically distinguished from identifiers. In publications, keywords were typically rendered in bold and/or underline, and identifiers were not. Representing this in a computer e…

Post by wingerlang » Sat, Jan 13, 2018, 2:36 PM UTC

astonex wrote: post #119

wingerlang wrote: post #55

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Capslock with custom bindings? The default way to switch is control + space.

It's not a custom binding. It's a default option offered by osx https://i.imgur.com/uJo5XUj.png

Post by andreasklinger » Sat, Jan 13, 2018, 3:38 PM UTC

ccho wrote: post #112

andreasklinger wrote: post #26

Awesome stuff - i think this kind of languages are more important than most people (esp with strong english school background assume). I could see this as educational language for kids. Related to this: In the 80/90s i saw a German BASIC variant floating around. Unfortunately i couldnt find it online But… if you are into alternative-language programming languages i highly recommend you reading up on Plankalkül[1] - w…

Perhaps it should have been "BIER" instead of "BEER".

Post by b2gills » Wed, Jan 17, 2018, 10:24 PM UTC

vidarh wrote: post #70

liveoneggs wrote: post #46

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in perl 6 you can quote strings in quite a few ways! https://docs.perl6.org/language/quoting "Quoting" is all defined inside of a sub-language called "Q"

Ruby has pretty much the same flexibility. "%" followed by almost any non-alphabetic character starts a quoted string. But most then become the quote character. If the quote character is at least ,),] or }. These are all equivalent: % %"x" %{x} %!x! Unfortunately the rules are loose enough that even space is a valid quote character. So this too is equivalent to the above: % x ("% x ")

  # start quoting with no features enabled
  # (not even backslashing the delimiter is enabled)
  Q

    :scalar    # enable $foo
    :array     # enable @foo[]
    :hash      # enable %foo{}
    :closure   # enable { 12/3 }
    :function  # enable &foo('bar')
    :single    # turns on backslashing the delimiter
    :backslash # enable \n
  
    :!exec     # turn off executing it (redundant)
    :exec(0)   # another syntax for turning off a feature
  
  {…}          # various delimiters are allowed (generally punctuation)

  "a b &foo( "c d &bar( "baz" )" )"

  ｢｣ =:= Q[]
  
  '' =:=  q[] =:= Q:q[]  =:= Q:single[]
  
  "" =:= qq[] =:= Q:qq[] =:= Q:double[]
     =:= Q:b:s:a:h:c:f[]
     =:= Q:backslash:scalar:array:hash:closure:function[]

  qq :!c [a {\n  b\n} c] # { and } don't form a closure here

  :foo =:= :foo( True ) =:= foo => True
  
  :!bar =:= :bar( False ) =:= bar => False
  
  :$baz =:= :baz( $baz ) =:= baz => $baz

  q =:= q> =:= q>>>>

  q >> =:= q'  '