Proposal: ArgumentDo

[Ryan Trinkle]

I'm very on the fence on this topic, but one point i haven't seen mentioned
is the influence of syntax highlighting on this.  My guess is that I would
like this extension when I have syntax highlighting available and would
dislike it when I do not.

Also, I agree with Carter about the record update syntax - I find it harder
to parse visually than most other parts of the language, and I expect I'd
find curly brace syntax for inline 'do' harder to parse in a similar way.
On the other hand, maybe I should get used to both...

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 07.07.2016, 13:15 -0400 schrieb Carter Schonwald:
> > agreed -1,
> > ambiguity is bad for humans, not just parsers.
> >
> > perhaps most damningly,
> > > f do{ x } do { y }
> >
> > is just reallly really weird/confusing to me,
>
> It is weird to me, but in no way confusing under the simple new rules,
> and I am actually looking forward to using that, and also to reading
> code with that.
>
> In fact, everything I wanted to pass two arguments in do-notation to a
> function I felt at a loss. The prospect of itemizing multiple large
> arguments to a function by writing
>
> someFunctionWithManyArguments
>   do firstArgument
>   do second Argument which may span
>        several lines
>   do third Argument
>
> is actually making me happy! It feels like going from XML to YAML...
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
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