From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I0QFe-0001Be-GW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:03:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5IN2Fm6004656; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:02:15 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5IN0Dsw002418 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:00:14 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF9E6496C for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:00:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.88 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.88 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.373, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.253] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LqZAUjFE0ArR for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:00:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A1964160 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:00:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I0QCY-0006t5-Vp for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:00:02 +0200 Received: from 91.84.98.178 ([91.84.98.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:00:02 +0200 Received: from slong by 91.84.98.178 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:00:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: EAPI-1 (or >1, perhaps) Proposal: AND Dependencies Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:53:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4671DCEF.7080009@gmail.com> <20070615120051.4f35ea2c@snowflake> <46727BE3.5090105@gentoo.org> <20070615125642.2dcffcd7@snowflake> <8cd1ed20706172347t5014395bg5fdccfc4adcd466e@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.84.98.178 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 8aca3ffa-2d7d-4c35-a493-55ddcf82f1d1 X-Archives-Hash: 8eca931f81b7a87c61318e6f76c78791 Kent Fredric wrote: > If you can, try integrate a name based syntax into the requirement. > using decorative characters alone may have their uses, but there are > only so many you can use, and so many combinations you can create > before all your code starts looking like perl's acme eyedrops. I say > name based, because this allows some degree of permitting forward > development & enhancement without majorly breaking an existing system > :) > Wow that all sounds mega: er what does it mean? ;) I mean, can you give examples of the syntax please? I'm guessing and instead of && but what about (..) Is that going to be line-based? (LISP brackets are very annoying imo.) > ( im not much of a lisper, but lisp a lot of functionality for the > cost of very minimal symbol abuse . .im not saying we should use lisp > syntax, but maybe a page from their book in terms of expandability ) Yeah #haskell has nice ideas too.. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list