Re: MoonScript, a language that compiles to Lua

[Gopalakrishnan Subramani <gopalakrishnan.subramani@...>]

Somehow I prefer old Lua way of table/dict. 

local collection = {
  height = 32434
  hats = {
    "tophat",
    "bball",
    "bowler"
  }
}
Over this below

collection =
  height: 32434
  hats: {"tophat", "bball", "bowler"}
No assumption with indentation please. I am already dying programmer with Python. Make them enclosed with  '{' & '}'

Others stuffs I liked. I will play around this weekend. 


We have 100 MBs of configuration in XML. When I open the tag, I would only see more of tags than the data. I am thinking over moving them to Lua. 

Now when moonscript is made right, it would still simplify the readability.

You have great inspiration and you are original leader Leaf. I appreciat the effort very much. 
I wish, moonscript to be general purpose DSL language for the clean syntax, easy configuration.

--

Gopalakrishnan

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:12 AM, leaf corcoran <leafot@gmail.com> wrote:

http://moonscript.org/reference/#conditionals

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:42 PM, HyperHacker <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 21:14, oliver <oliver.schoenborn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> writes:
>>> > I'm a Lua guy, but I prefer locals by default and grouping by
>>> > indentation, if I had my druthers (which of course I never will).
>>> > Here's why I prefer grouping by indentation:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/199908/index.htm#_readability
>>>
>>> Indeed, those features are perfect for trivially tiny example programs
>>> ... :]
>>
>> Actually, trivially tiny example programs are the only place that unindented
>> code makes sense. Any real code relies on indentation to help coder
>> visualize its block structure.  So to make indentation a requirement for
>> code is "forcing" you to do something you already have to do for anything
>> more than trivial programs.
>> Good unit testing, naming convensions, logical structure, encapsulation, and
>> language tools (syntax highlighting, lint, code formatter, etc) matter way
>> more than white space.
>>>
>>> Gotta wait until all the python programmers are dead I suppose...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -miles
>>
>> This kind of comment is unacceptable on a public forum. Many programmers
>> know more than one programming language. Think of that next time you post.
>> Oliver
>>
>
> 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)
>
> --
> Sent from my toaster.
>
>