[Swift-devel] Re: Phone meeting?

[Ben Clifford]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> > > app (quark output) cvt12x12 (file input) {
> > >         CVT12x12 "-v" "-i" @input "-o" @output;
> > > }
> > >   
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> I thought it would make more sense for reasons beyond cosmetics. The
> app{} block cannot, for example, be used in a foreach loop (or at least
> it isn't well defined there). So it is bound to a "procedure"
> definition.

This has been bugging me for a while. Its a pretty straightforward change 
at the text-mode parser level, and as someone else seems to have come up 
with the same solution that I've had buzzing round my brain for a while, I 
guess that indicates some consensus.

> > One minor issue - would it be better to place this "function attribute" 
> > closer to the function name,
> > such as "(quark output) app cvt12x12 (file input)"? Or perhaps after the 
> > function name?

> I'd personally like to follow known styles (e.g. Java), but I guess the
> parser can be made to understand "app" flexibly.

I'd prefer to follow Java/C syntax style as much as possible. I'd also 
prefer to not have flexibility here - it complicates the parser which 
tends to have a fairly direct consequence of making syntax error messages
less useful.

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