Re: [Gretl-devel] trivial syntax request for "set"
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 13.01.2017 um 14:53 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> would it be too difficult (or have unwanted side effects) to enable
>> several 'set' instructions on a single line, as in:
>> "set echo off, messages off" ?
>>
>> Obviously you will like this only if you share my preference for less
>> lines of code instead of more...
>
> I too prefer fewer lines of code if possible. (It's a bit unfortunate
> that we don't have any character left to indicate "end of logical
line".
> The traditional semicolon is of course recruited for another purpose in
> hansl.)
You mean some character in place of <...> to write stuff like the following
on one line?:
"if yes <...> print x <..> endif"
I was thinking more of C-isms such as
x = 3; y = 5; z = 7
Personally I'm not too keen on putting control-flow all on one line.
Just thinking out loud: From the ASCII characters at least
"ยง" isn't
used by hansl I guess.
Heh, that's not an ASCII character.
Allin