Re: MoonScript, a language that compiles to Lua

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 03:58, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:36:12 +0200, Axel Kittenberger wrote:
>>>
>>> Except it forces indentation and structure in cases where it's not
>>> entirely necessary. I like being able to write:
>>> if x then doThings(x) else doThings(y) end
>>> instead of:
>>> if x then
>>>    doThings(x)
>>> else
>>>    doThings(y)
>>
>> Did you actually work with any significant whitespace language? E.g.
>> in python both work very well. You can always write all things in one
>> line if you want to.
>>
>> What you just cannot do is:
>>
>>  if x then
>> doThings(x)
>>          else
>> doThings(y)
>
> To clarify in case you don't use Python: it doesn't only rely on
> whitespace for conditionals, ie. you don't write this:
>
>  if x
>    doThings(x)
>  else
>    doThings(y)
>
> but this:
>
>  if x:
>    doThings(x)
>  else:
>    doThings(y)
>
> which you can write like this:
>
>  if x: doThings(x)
>  else: doThings(y)
>
> I am not sure you can cleanly make this a one liner though.
>
> An approach I like to solve the problem and make everybody
> happy is the one used by the Go language: whitespace is not
> significant but there is a canonical indentation style and
> a tool (gofmt) that enforces it.
>
> I don't see a reason why this wouldn't work with Lua. It is
> probably possible to make a parser that takes valid Lua code
> and returns a canonical representation for it.
>
> --
> Pierre 'catwell' Chapuis
>
>

Because everyone has their own canonical representation of Lua? ;-)

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