After Parrot, what next?
Grant Griffin
not.this at seebelow.org
Mon Apr 9 22:42:16 EDT 2001
Roy Smith wrote:
>
> A bunch of us were discussing the new Parrot syntax (i.e things like
> "left_angle_bracket_right_angle_bracket") today and came up with a great
> idea for a new language syntax, which mixes the best ideas of Parrot and
> XML. Instead of:
>
> for line in sys.stdin.getlines():
> print line
>
> or
>
> while (<>) {
> print;
> }
>
> you'd do:
>
> <for>
> <controlvariable>line</controlvariable>
> <iteratorlist>getlines</iteratorlist>
> <body>
> <statement>
> <print>line</print>
> </statement>
> </body>
> </for>
>
> So, what'ya think?
For the benefit of Ruby fans, I think you should replace "/" with "end
".
and-let's-call-it-"Ruby-Red-Budgie"-<wink>-ly y'rs,
=g2
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