Re: Moonscript as a useful notation for Lua users

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Jon Akhtar <akhtar@mindspring.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:17 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> The question is: is it annoying to _type_ or to _read_?  We've gone around
>> that bush several times.  In the extreme case of an ideologically crippled
>> language like Java requiring loads of boilerplate to do a simple callback, I
>> think reading suffers.  Not sure about Lua, however.
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>
> it depends on where the declaration is syntactically, and how many lines the
> body includes.
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> The tradeoff to readability works with certain styles more than others.
>
> Ever tried Groovy? No one seems to like it. Despite its many features.
>

Oh, people used to like Groovy. It just sort of got eclipsed (pun
totally intended) by Scala.

/s/ Adam