Subject: Re: Iteration with named let From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 19:28:48 -0400 |
W. Eliot Kimber wrote: > >Yes. One stylistic comments though. You've probaby noticed > >that many DSSSL programmers use a different parentheses syntax. It saves > >screen real estate. > > I have such a difficult time keeping parens matched (even with a > bracket-matching editor), that I have to do the above or I go nuts trying > to figure out where the missing paren is. Vertical space isn't really an > issue for me (at least while I'm working on my big display at home). More than a bracket-matching editor, you need an editor that properly indents the contents based on the nesting. Then the close paren becomes strictly redundant: the indentation accurately describes the nesting. If you screw up the parens, the indentation becomes wrong. Emacs is of course such an editor. Edwin (like a Scheme-based Emacs) is too. I'm not sure of others. When I'm using a non-Emacs editor, I count parens against tabs manually. > I'm about one free weekend away from defining a DTD for DSSSL expressions > so I can create the DSSSL specs using an SGML editor (and then, of course, > write a DSSSL spec to generate a DSSSL spec from the resulting document). That sounds, ummm, verbose. But I'd love to see it when its done. We're doing some program specification and interface generation in SGML/Jade. We haven't moved on to actually programming in it. Note that Jade already supports over 170 procedures. That's a big picklist. Paul Prescod DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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