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Re: Simple Reader Macros for Dylan
I think it's very useful, very expressive, doesn't harm readablitity and should
be put to the standards review body.
I was looking admiringly at examples using bare-words in REBOL, this seems to go
much further.
- Rob.
Jonathan Bachrach wrote:
> As promised here is a very brief description of a very simple reader macro
> facility that permits Dylan to have friendly literal formats for popular
> data types. This was thought up by Andrew Armstrong, Keith Playford and
> myself while at Harlequin. We would love to get your feedback on it.
>
> #file:"C:\Program Files\Functional Objects\."
> #html:{<html>
> <head><title>Foo</title></head>
> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
> </body>
> </html>}
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