17 Aug
2006
17 Aug
'06
4:17 p.m.
On 17/08/06, Brian Hulley
Literal highlighting in the editor would make it clear that x-2 === x (-2). I think a basic issue is that at the moment it is strange that non-negative numbers can be specified as literals but negative numbers can't - they can only get in through the "back door" of evaluation - which just doesn't seem right.
You also can't specify string literals: they're sugar for 'a':'b':'c':[]. You seem to be arguing that syntactic sugar, and by extension, a small core language, is bad. -- -David House, dmhouse@gmail.com