[racket] scribble syntax suggestion wrt text-mode and racket-mode arguments

But a block of text does not always turn into a single argument, so I'm not
sure how to do what you ask.

Robby


On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Matthew Butterick <mb.list.acct at gmail.com>wrote:

> Semantically, "an operation [in Scribble] doesn’t care whether it’s used
> with [...] or {...}." Therefore, it would be useful if Scribble expressions
> were not syntactically limited to the form @ ‹cmd› [ ‹datum›* ] {
> ‹text-body› }, and instead allowed text-mode and racket-mode arguments to
> be freely & indefinitely sequenced.
>
> What I've found using Scribble is that many of the functions one writes
> are, of course, intended to operate on a text argument. So the text-mode
> argument naturally wants to come first in the function:
>
> @cross-ref{This text}
>
> Now, suppose I want to add an optional second argument. The natural place
> for this optional argument would be after the first:
>
> @cross-ref{This text}["where.html"]
>
> or
>
> @cross-ref{This text){where.html}
>
> But AFAIK, Scribble forbids these patterns. So I might try this:
>
> @cross-ref["where.html"]{This text}
>
> But that doesn't work either, because the cross-ref function expects the
> target text to be in the first position. So either I must forego idiomatic
> Scribble expressions altogether:
>
> @(cross-ref "This text" "where.html")
>
> Or use a keyword argument:
>
> @cross-ref[#:destination "where.html"]{This text}
>
> As a workaround, that's OK. But at this point, Scribble is reaching up
> into my code and starting to impose design restrictions (namely, keyword
> arguments) that have ripple effects elsewhere.
>
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