From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Problem trying to implement generics.
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01:15:34 GMT
Date: 2001-04-24T01:15:34+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccg0ezt7wp.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.21.0104221929320.5275-100000@shell5.ba.best.com
Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> How about just using the {} and having an optional } if; syntax?
I suppose it's just a matter of taste, but I find "} if;" distasteful.
> > And probably the {...} syntax couldn't have other control structures
> > nested inside it -- it's only allowed for the innermost thing.
> >
> > Good idea?
>
> I don't like it.
Why?
> > Oh, and I'd like my editor to automatically convert from one to the
> > other as "..." grows or shrinks.
>
> At this point, I say adopt indentation for block structure.
But indentation only marks the *beginning* of the thing.
> Funny you mentioned that, I've started using LaTeX again. Sometimes the
> old ways are better :-).
It amazes me that Knuth, who is orders of magnitude smarter than me, can
design such an awful language. Writing TeX is like writing an
assembly-language program to generate a document. Except TeX is more
error-prone than most assembly languages. LaTeX is like programming in
a *macro* assembly language, which has some advantages, but causes all
error messages to be totally incomprehensible.
> > BTW, I wish ASCII had left and right double-quote characters. That
> > would be much more civilized.
>
> Oh well. Maybe the decision to restrict a language to ASCII will be viewed
> in the future like Ada's current restrictions. There are certainly glyphs
> that I'd use if I could but I think ASCII is a fair restriction for the
> lexemes of the surface syntax of a language.
Sigh. Maybe when Unicode is uniformly supported by all hardware and
software...
- Bob
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2001-04-11 15:04 Problem trying to implement generics Ayende Rahien
2001-04-12 1:41 ` tmoran
2001-04-12 13:15 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-12 18:15 ` tmoran
2001-04-13 11:18 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-13 10:35 ` chris.danx
2001-04-13 11:54 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-13 11:49 ` chris.danx
2001-04-13 23:03 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-13 23:01 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-14 0:05 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-14 1:12 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-14 1:44 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-14 14:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-14 16:30 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-14 16:28 ` Michael Erdmann
2001-04-15 3:27 ` James Rogers
2001-04-15 12:20 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-15 14:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-15 18:22 ` tmoran
2001-04-15 13:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-15 20:44 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-16 14:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-04-14 1:33 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-17 8:50 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-04-17 13:20 ` Tucker Taft
2001-04-17 16:51 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-17 17:16 ` Larry Hazel
2001-04-17 18:11 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-17 19:10 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-17 21:08 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-18 15:16 ` Chad R. Meiners
2001-04-18 16:33 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-17 21:09 ` chris.danx
2001-04-17 21:11 ` chris.danx
2001-04-17 21:17 ` chris.danx
2001-05-08 5:40 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-05-11 9:43 ` John English
2001-05-12 19:16 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-04-17 19:32 ` Larry Hazel
2001-04-17 21:03 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-18 15:48 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-20 12:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-04-20 12:42 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-04-20 12:45 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-04-20 19:48 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-20 20:36 ` David Starner
2001-04-20 23:02 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-23 2:45 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-24 1:15 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2001-04-24 2:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-24 15:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-04-24 15:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-04-24 18:36 ` Marius Amado Alves
2001-04-19 13:08 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <9bi4g4$97m$1@nh.pace.Organization: LJK Software <YlSyXUaQmD+$@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2001-04-19 14:20 ` Marin David Condic
2001-04-18 5:34 ` Mike Silva
2001-04-18 16:55 ` Ray Blaak
2001-04-24 16:00 ` Tucker Taft
2001-04-12 13:57 ` Andy
2001-04-13 6:34 ` Simon Wright
2001-04-13 11:11 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-12 18:06 ` Stephen Leake
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