"ease of syntax highlighting is in many ways a good proxy of readability" Interesting Rust syntax discussion: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/134
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In praise of Tcl, and reflecting on syntax features for a good command shell: https://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html
I'm experimenting with syntax in examples. I don't really like Rust's `assert(inc(1) == 2)` syntax, I find it a little distracting.
I'm trying `inc(1) //-> 2`. The comment is rendered differently, and there's nothing before the sample code. What do you think?
I've added syntax highlighting to the prompt of my programming language!
It's not strictly necessary, but it's nice to have. It caught a bug with lexing incomplete string literals too.