Improving ddoc

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 2 13:10:24 PST 2015


On Friday, 2 January 2015 at 21:03:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/2/2015 1:34 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 1/1/15 1:59 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d 
>> wrote:
>>> I do however still think that using $( ) to delineate start 
>>> and end of
>>> macro blocks is a bad choice given the prevalence of ( ) in 
>>> code.
>>
>> s/think/believe/ seeing as you bring awfully little evidence 
>> to back that up. --
>> Andrei
>
> The thing is, ( ) naturally pair in code, and naturally paired 
> ( ) are not an issue in Ddoc. One never sees [..) in code 
> (maybe Mathematica supports it).

Not that I know of. [ and ] are for function application/calls in 
mathematica and ( ) have their normal order-of-evaluation meaning.


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