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11 points by aw 5612 days ago | 2 comments


1 point by aw 5608 days ago | link

Updated:

- Now trying out using “...” as the syntax for templates.

- Rewrote the section on why I chose the interface I did, added an explanation of why I'm not using RPC, and included a link to andreyf's "The Black Box disease" posting. (http://andreyf.tumblr.com/post/321371513/the-black-box-disea...)

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2 points by rocketnia 5607 days ago | link

Curved quotes (“...”) bug me a little because of the way tools like Microsoft Word and Wordpress automagically curve people's quotation marks either as they type or as they publish. Usually, this would just result in a flagrant syntax error, but with your syntax it would have a slightly more subtle effect.

I almost didn't care to mention it. After all, if people are going to compose/publish code in places where prose is expected, they'll get bitten one way or another. For instance, really strange characters might be displayed as question marks, or a random ":o" might turn into an emoticon. But I was amused to find a curved quote code mishap within a day, just by accident: http://www.flashcoder.net/blog/?p=100

  The quotes you use in the MediaControlEvent package result in a
  syntax error in Flash if I copy from browser to Flash.
  
  Rather than:
  “headControl”
  
  should be:
  “headControl”
Automagic curved quotes on a coding blog. Priceless. (I'm one to speak. I think my blog has the same problem.)

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