Alternate declaration syntax

Hans W. Uhlig huhlig at clickconsulting.com
Fri Apr 11 10:26:24 PDT 2008


Ok, Posting to the main forum so it doesn't get lost in the const stuff.

Perhaps a slight variation to the C declaration might be in order, since 
I know that multiple return values are wanted, a simple and readable 
syntax for inheritance is needed (using : as an inheritor does not make 
code more readable) try this out and see if it makes it clearer

<modifiers,...> <identifier> <properties,...> {...}

such that:
const foo(const int, const double) §
     throws barExtension §
     returns const int, const float
{
     // ... code ...
}

same for classes:

const class foo § extends bar {
     const int x;
     pure foo(const int, const double) § returns invariant string;
     // ... more code ...
}

(Note: § is used as a divider because no one uses it for anything in 
programming and I didn't want to start an argument over : or | or ; or 
any other punctuation being used elsewhere and being bad, quite possible 
punctuation wouldn't be neccessary)

It looks like a hideous cross between java and visual basic but it is 
clean, readable, simple to machine parse(I think) and descriptive. using 
slightly longer keywords makes a language a little more verbose, but it 
also makes it readable. if you want to use punctuation for everything 
you get what happened to perl when someone got a little too creative

`$=`;$_=\%!;($_)=/(.)/;$==++$|;($.,$/,$,,$\,$",$;,$^,$#,$~,$*,$:,@%)=(
$!=~/(.)(.).(.)(.)(.)(.)..(.)(.)(.)..(.)......(.)/,$"),$=++;$.++;$.++;
$_++;$_++;($_,$\,$,)=($~.$"."$;$/$%[$?]$_$\$,$:$%[$?]",$"&$~,$#,);$,++
;$,++;$^|=$";`$_$\$,$/$:$;$~$*$%[$?]$.$~$*${#}$%[$?]$;$\$"$^$~$*.>&$=`



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