Array literal syntax

[Brian Rice]

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On Dec 19, 2005, at 3:03 AM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:

> Brian Rice wrote:
>> Smalltalk does #[] for that, but for us, that's compile-time  
>> evaluation
>> of a block. Generally, we use #- prefix to denote compile-time  
>> evaluation.
>
> How frequently is CTE used? Perhaps a single-char syntax for that is
> overkill - mightn't `atCompileTime be better?

Pretty often. And we do have `evaluate.

>   {1. 'hi'. #something} `atCompileTime  "oh ok it's #used a lot. oops"
>
>   {my complexComputation. another trickyComputation} `atCompileTime
>   {my complexComputation. another trickyComputation} `preEvaluated
>
> (Obviously, notions of phase and scoping rear their ugly heads...)
>
> Actually this is interesting - the #something above is using '#' to  
> mean
> 'quote' (roughly). To properly resolve this would require a proper
> investigation into the nature of quoting and any relationship it  
> has to
> staged evaluation in Slate. Tricky stuff. I retract the suggestion for
> now :-)

Yep. Let's consider byte array literal syntax unnecessary for now.

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- -Brian
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