Yeah—the specifics depend on what you want to do in particular, but for example I allow newlines within parentheses/square braces, or outside a layout context, and they don’t cause statement terminators to be inserted there
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Here’s the latest code for my implementation of this technique, if you’re curious: github.com/evincarofautum
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Yeah, I believe that this is what Gluon and Haskell do too.
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I've been doing some work in fsharp recently and .. whoo boy I did not expect to have so many feelings against whitespace sensitivity boil up all of a sudden. But for real: it does not go well in expression languages where you're doing a lot of nesting & continuation lines.
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I’m almost considering not doing whitespace sensitivity in Pikelet. 🤔
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It's weird because it did not bother me in haskell (nor python) but it's like fingernails on blackboard in fsharp. Might just be the years I've spent doing ocaml which is not. But also I think there's much more rightward drift with pervasive keyword args and module decl nesting.
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Weirdly the braces in Rust bother me a lot more because it is so rightward drifty. 🤔
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It wasn't supposed to be! My early syntax guideline was "there's always more vertical space in the buffer", which I still mostly believe. But the FP expression language squad showed up and I lost. IMO the only half-decent way to do an expression language is sexps.
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That's an interesting point. Is the logic something like: expr languages need to delimit exprs, the only reasonable way to delimit exprs is surround with brackets, but for consistency you should just have that everywhere, so that implies sexps?
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That is .. pretty much my conclusion, yes. Though if you want to avoid wearing our your shift key, maybe [square brackets]? :)
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I know right? If only Rebol hadn't been proprietary for the first 15 years it coulda been a contender!
(Also Tcl. Everyone overlooks the fact that Tcl is a totally viable Lisp.)
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