Re: MoonScript, a language that compiles to Lua

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 11/08/2011 13.29, Axel Kittenberger wrote:
> I'd outlaw either, so any script that has not exclusively spaces or
> tabs in every line until the first non-space-character should simply
> just generate a compiler error.

That would make things better, but couldn't unfortunately prevent subtle 
(and not so subtle) errors introduced when 
copying/pasting/deleting/editing code if the insertion point is not in 
the correct horizontal position.
It happens often enough to me in any language, that I thought it better 
to avoid a language where I'd be sure to shoot myself in the foot sooner 
or later.

I've always wondered why force programmers to take care manually of 
something that could be automated by the editor.
e.g. some scripters in one of my teams did a good job, but never managed 
to grasp the idea of proper indentation. Fortunately it was Lua and I 
didn't have to guess what their code was supposed to do :-)

Hmm... we could design a language where even the 3rd dimension is 
semantically significant. It would need a 3D printer, of course, but 
updented code would really stand out ;-)

--
  Enrico