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1 point by fallintothis 4192 days ago | link | parent

Really, I'm just thinking of the parsing algorithm---or, rather, lexing.

Oh yeah, and how does it work for negative number literals? I assume

  (f n-1)   --> (f (- n 1))
  (f n - 1) --> (f (- n 1))
because the minus either does or does not have spaces around it, but

  (f n -1) --> (f n -1)
because the minus sign only has spaces on one side?


1 point by akkartik 4192 days ago | link

Yeah. I never treat an op as infix if it has whitespace on just one side.

There is one ugly special-case here:

  f.-1   ; => (f -1)
http://github.com/akkartik/wart/blob/8211614d63/014infix.cc#...

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