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- Subject: Re: parser hacking: conditional fields
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:36:22 +0200
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hmm, how about ".?" instead of "~" (which seems kind of random) ...?
> Using ".?", the meaning seems to almost jump out at you...
In fact, it has a name and implementation: 'existential operator' as
used in CoffieScript. Works exactly as you would expect.
Certainly feel this would be very useful and make some common patterns
less clumsy.
