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The Eno notation language

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Re: The Eno notation language

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Post by teddyh » 

  # cities
  Den Haag: 52.069961, 4.302315
  Málaga: 36.721447, -4.421291
Here, “cities” looks like a comment, but it is part of the syntax, otherwise this example code would not work:

  document.section('cities').lat_lng('Málaga')
The actual comment syntax is “>”:

  > comment

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Post by jmaa »

What non-indented markup languages gain by avoiding indentation, they lose in succinctness. What is the difference between a section, a list, and a field set? When would I use one instead of another?

If your aim is data representation, why not go for JSON, Lua table-notation or S-expressions? These do not need different syntax for sections, lists or field sets, but have very clear syntax for a few primary data structures, which you can them compose however you want.

Re: The Eno notation language

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Post by qubex »

tosh wrote: post #3

A 50s demo video of autocompletion in Atom powered by introspection: https://eno-lang.org/resources/introspection.mp4

Mention of atom and the fifties caused me to hallucinate Fallout-style atompunk/Jetsons retrofuturism.
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