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refractalize edited this page Apr 26, 2012 · 1 revision

I'm not especially happy with the current crop of JavaScript-esque operators. Especially && and || and !. I think Ruby's and, or and not are much more elegant. But how do we fit them into PogoScript? After all, any word that appears in a form is taken to be part of the name of a function or variable.

This won't work as it does in Ruby:

a and b

Because variables can contain spaces:

show details and has access

Instead operators work, which can't be part of identifiers:

show details && has access

But we should try something else, named operators, not-unlike Haskell's infix operator:

show details @and has access

Of course we can try a number of symbols to get it right:

show details %and has access

show details $and has access

show details #and has access

According to the documentation, you can have Closure Compiler add the sourceMappingURL to the bottom of the script with something like this:

--output_wrapper "%output%
//# sourceMappingURL=output.js.map"

being added to your call. Not that you cannot use "\n" here, and you need a newline literal. On a Linux shell this works just fine (if you're inside of quotes when you press enter, the command doesn't get executed).

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