Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end)

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:04:55 +0100, Georg Bauhaus  
<rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> a écrit:
> (Regarding the comment markup, I first thought "{{Frmbloo}}";
> however, mathematical sets, very useful in comments, can have
> sets as elements, "{{" becomes ambigous".  "{{" might be too
> similar to "((", too, the latter being valid Ada source text.
> The @{ @} construct, sufficiently unique yet simple, can bracket
> inline Ada source of any kind; "@@" (or some another pair)
> will---if needed---provide for line-wise switching
> complementing "--" and eases the writing of coding examples in
> comments.  The comments can then be checked by compilers and
> tools.
Looks good. The use of “@” is also quite common in one well known LP  
notations : FunnelWeb. So this is a somewhat already existing standard.  
After all, LP writes program text inside of natural text… and this is  
exactly what this is about with comments.

According to the authoritative FunnelWeb documentation, which you can  
access here:
http://www.ross.net/funnelweb/tutorial/intro_hello.html
the body of a macros, whose purpose is to expand into program text, is  
exactly the same as the one you suggested! This would be a clever re-use  
of one of the most famous LP notation. By the way, this guy, Ross  
Williams, the author of FunnelWeb, was also a fan of Ada… see how this  
story is funny ? ;)

> (If programmers didn't suffer from Unicode phobia, the language
> designers could pick symbols for bracketing not otherwise used
> such as right and left pointing triangles.  Alas, digraphs rule...)
The font too should not suffer from Unicode phobia. Mono-spaced fonts are  
oftenly poor at supporting Unicode (lack of too many character range). I  
would suggest “DejaVu Sans Mono” here (good support, the one I use, so I  
can tell).

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