Nut - Tabbed Nu fileformat

[ksjogo]

Hi guys,
I am experimenting with a tabbed version of Nu to reduce parentheses typing work.
I think the tabbed style is great to write self-evaling data formats in it because it can be easily written and read by humans and the computer has no problem as well. Plus it allows the greatness of macros and functions reducing a lot of the parser parts.
Syntax example can be found here: https://github.com/ksjogo/nu/blob/nut/test/test_nut.nut
Working extension to Nu as well: https://github.com/ksjogo/nu/tree/nut
Has anybody done something similiar?

A bigger example might follow when I come to write a DSL for my next iOS game.

Cheers
jogo

[alco]

This looks familiar http://syrup.tcr.io/

[Chris Brody]

In general I do really like this. In general I like having more
indentation freedom that comes with Python or Javascript but doesn't
really matter, I would follow similar rules to writing makefiles.

Another thing I like about Python is that any statement line that has
some lines underneath, such as if or class, end with a ":". I wonder
if this could be part of a "nut" standard library, if it is ever
created. An example like your test case:

class TestNut extends NuTestCase is:
- testTimes is:
set sum 0
10 times:
lambda (i) do:
set sum (+ sum i)
assert_equal 45 sum

Readability is a winner!

Chris

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[ksjogo]

Interesting, have not seen syrup before, but for my taste it is already too much syntax.

Checking for colons at the end should be possible because nut is a string manipulation preparser, but the disambiguation with objc methods (double colon at end?) would cause quirks with me.

[Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch]

You may also be interested in reading http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/sweet-expressions.html

-jwr

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[Aleksandr Skobelev]

IMHO, the style with parens looks prettier.


On Apr 22, 10:39 pm, Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch <n...@redshed.net>
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> > This looks familiarhttp://syrup.tcr.io/