Personalized Syntax: [was Dependence on Programming Experts]

[Brian Yennie]

It's only a step in the direction, but this is exactly why I've always 
thought custom getProp / setProp handlers were cool language magic.
For example, a while back when I wrote an external for rotating player 
objects, I implemented custom handlers to support the "angle" property 
for player objects.

While it didn't really make a lick of difference otherwise, I much 
enjoyed being able to write:

set the angle of player 1 to 90

instead of something like:

get XSetMovieAngle(player 1, 90)

Since image objects already supported the "angle" property, it really 
felt like it was part of the language even though it was really an 
external. Cool beans!

> This sounds like Language Oriented Programming
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Oriented_Programming
>
> I've been thinking that it would be cool if Rev would support custom 
> language elements (similar to operator overloading) that you could 
> then build your own Revolution "language" that is then specific to 
> your problem.
>
> At 12:07 PM 7/16/2006, you wrote:
>> I listed many several years back, and implemented about a dozen.
>>
>> I think the key for something like this will be when we move beyond
>> what could be described as "keyboard shortcuts," and into something
>> that can only be described as enhanced syntax, i.e. something that
>> actually changes the way you think when you program.
>>
>> gc
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2006, at 9:08 AM, Rob Cozens wrote:
>>
>>> So who else has examples of how personalized syntax and keyboard
>>> shorthand might be used?
>>
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