Re: Macros and expressivity

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 16/01/2008 00:38, Hisham wrote:
> > Perhaps because fun 3+4 would look ambiguous and error prone? Somehow,
> > the quotes *are* the delimiters of the function parameter, so they are
> > no ambiguous.
>
> Well, then what about this:
>
> string.lower "HELLO".."WORLD"

I reckon it is ambiguous, but still not much more than math.exp (3)*(4)

Personally, I was never used to the practice of putting a space before 
the parameters of a function, I do this only for keywords (if, while, 
for -- for languages using these parentheses, of course), and I 
routinely surround my operators with spaces.

So I would write:

string.lower"HELLO" .. "WORLD"
and
math.exp(3) * 4

which lowers the ambiguity.

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