<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Mikhail V <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikhailwas@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikhailwas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>*Theoretically* I see a solution by 'inlined' statements.<br>Take a long example:<br><br> print ( merge (a, b, merge ( long_variable2, long_variable2 ) ) <br><br>Now just split it in 2 lines:<br><br> tmp <> merge ( long_variable2, long_variable2 )<br> print ( merge (a, b, tmp ) )<br><br>So I'd for example invent a special sign which just marks <br>statements that will be first collected as inline text, sort of macros. <br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have a great idea for this special sign. We could use the equal sign '=' for this purpose of assigning a value into a temporary name. :-)</div><div><br></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>tmp = merge(long_variable2, long_variable2)</div><div>print (merge(a, b, tmp) )</div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food <br>from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the <br>uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting <br>advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is<br>to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.<br></div>
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