[plt-dev] at-exp and whitespace

FWIW I like the "simple uniform" aspect of the current setup. I was
just wondering if there would be a way to signal an error for [ case.

Robby

On 2/27/09, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> JFYI, the reason I implemented it this way is that I was worried about
> what would happen if any whitespace is allows.  I was worried that
> something like this can be a common mistake:
>
>   (define foo "blah")
>   @text{ @foo @foo @foo
>          [but not another @foo] }
>
> The error will be reading this as:
>
>   (define foo "blah")
>   (text " " foo " " foo " " (foo but not another foo) " ")
>
> For a while, I considered allowing only spaces (not newlines), but the
> result is an awkward set of rules to parse @-forms, so I chose to go
> with the simple and uniform option.
>
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>