Adding print-style function calls, and preproc plugins
Tim Peters
tim.one at home.com
Thu Aug 30 20:25:11 EDT 2001
[Steven D. Majewski]
> A *SLIGHT* ambiguity !
>
> It's extremely ambiguous.
>
> What does:
> "e1 e2 e3 e4 e5"
> mean when more than one of those e's is a function ?
> Can you tell which ones represent function calls if you don't
> know the value of all of the e's ?
Did you ever check out REBOL? That's the case there: it's kind of like
Scheme but with mixed infix/reverse-forth <0.5 wink> notation, and you
actually can't know at compile-time how it groups. Something like
probe copy/part next colors back tail colors
is fine (and, indeed, taken verbatim from the reference manual). If colors
is bound to the list [red green blue], that produces [green]. At runtime it
actually groups like this:
probe(
copy/part(next(colors),
back(tail(colors))
)
)
where "copy/part" is effectively a single name.
It's actually quite readable in simple cases, like
print third colors
but in complex cases it really gave me a headache. I was assured at least
once that the implementation wasn't always delighted either <wink>.
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