On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 9:23 AM, DavidLeibs <david.leibs at gmail.com> wrote:

>  The ES6 design is sound and if you are in a hurry to get the capability it
> is a great way to go. Once you start using it and get a taste for
> quasi-literal little languages you will find that you want more.
>
> Having a quasi-literal that let's you name the little language to parse you
> open a very interesting door. After the dust settles you need a parser and
> compiler framework that allows plugins at every stage.  You "MUST" have a
> rich and stable AST and it must be usable as a quasi-literal because
> transpilers abound. You wind up with transpiler code that is templated and
> quite "Lispy".
>
> At the end of the day you will finally let in Macros. I believe thatJulia
> got all this right. They stick a "@" in front of their macro invocations so
> you get rid of a lot of confusion. David Moon made the Julia macro system a
> thing of true beauty. Perfection actually.
>
> At the end of the day you want Smalltalk Compile Time "Staged Meta
> Evaluation".
>
> Still, at a minimum go with the ES6 design. Consider "<|" because " ` " is
> hard to see.  Some fonts do a terrible job with it.  You could do both.
>

Agreed, and ` (back tick) is used in PetitParser for quasi-quote, so it
would be lovely not to collide with it.


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