A DOMain of Shadows http://t.co/G8Fu78l0dd Superb discussion of internal DSLs vs custom syntax.
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Playing with Claude and my new programming language has made me add features that it wants. I think they're reasonable.
`for method in methods` -- custom syntax error explaining that `method` is a reserved word
`echo 'println("hello world")' | garden` -- eval snippets from stdin
I'm changing method definition syntax in my language:
// old
fun (this: Int) inc(): Int { this + 1 }
// new
method inc(this: Int): Int { this + 1 }
The original syntax was inspired by Go, but the new syntax is more grep-friendly and perhaps more readable. Not sure about the verbosity though. Thoughts?
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?