Shouldn't this language be white-space insensitive in order to be truly pure as a semicolon language?
I agree. You should be able to delimit statements with the ! character.
Semicolon: A language of semicolons
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#92How do you type a reversed semicolon on a Mac?
Press the ⁏ key
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#93Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons
#94Hi guys, just wanted to tag along with this thread, because I'm a huge fan of Semicolon! One thing I've always found aggravating though... Those darn semicolons! So I'm creating CoffeeColon, because all these semi-colons are such a hassle. It's probably easiest if I just show you the language in action, rather than going through a long diatribe. So here's my hello world!: " " ^ Pretty elegant, right? let's try someth…
See Ellipsis: http://listrophy.github.com/ellipsis/
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#95would be a joy to code with this drunk
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#96There are lots of joke languages that are simply isomorphic to Brainfuck - Ook, Fuckfuck and so on - so congratulations on not just taking the easy way out (changing their eight keywords instantly gives you an interpreter, compiler, sample code, ...)
brainfuck itself is simply a minor variation of P", created back in 1964.
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#97@fat and @douglascrockford, the HN community is now satirizing both of you. It's time for you both to do the right thing; add the semicolon to the bootstrap-dropdown.js code and change JSMin to support the original edge case.
Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons
#98@fat and @douglascrockford, the HN community is now satirizing both of you. It's time for you both to do the right thing; add the semicolon to the bootstrap-dropdown.js code and change JSMin to support the original edge case.
Surely, that should be add all the semicolons to bootstrap-dropdown.js?
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#99@fat and @douglascrockford, the HN community is now satirizing both of you. It's time for you both to do the right thing; add the semicolon to the bootstrap-dropdown.js code and change JSMin to support the original edge case.
Surely, that should be add all the semicolons to bootstrap-dropdown.js?
No. Twitter has every right to implement their Bootstrap code as they see fit.
But it is just common courtesy to make small accommodations for people who are having difficulty using the code that Twitter has so generously released as open source.
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