Timeline for What are the pros and cons of allowing keywords to be abbreviated?
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| S Jul 4, 2023 at 21:38 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Jul 4, 2023 at 21:38 | history | edited | Dewi Morgan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Update with RW's suggestions.
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| Jul 4, 2023 at 21:22 | history | edited | Dewi Morgan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Consistently abbreviate to "DS" throughout.
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| Jul 4, 2023 at 21:15 | history | edited | Dewi Morgan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
More clarifications.
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| Jul 4, 2023 at 21:06 | history | edited | Dewi Morgan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarify how DS abbreviations work. Hopefully!
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| Jul 4, 2023 at 20:45 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Jul 4, 2023 at 20:42 | comment | added | Dewi Morgan | @ReverentLapwing Yes, all text is merely syntactic sugar for humans, ignored by the parser. Only the numbers (and in later versions of the language which supported them {strings in curlies} and @variables) are parsed. The rest can be removed to reduce the pain of repetition. In a similar way, a language could allow most text of keywords to be collapsed for brevity, but that only helps if variable and method names are similarly terse. So I'm very far from convinced it'd be an advantage in non-golfing languages with loops, variables, classes, etc. | |
| Jul 4, 2023 at 20:30 | comment | added | Reverent Lapwing | I'm trying to understand this language as much as I can from the link you provided, apologies if I'm getting something wrong. Are you saying that you can omit "and they are" and such, because the parser will understand the instructions without them? If so, then I wouldn't agree it's at all similar to what the OP is describing, those structures in Dragonspeak act more like optional comments, not keywords. | |
| S Jul 4, 2023 at 20:00 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Jul 4, 2023 at 20:00 | history | answered | Dewi Morgan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |