Comments for page "Code Generation & Visual Smog in Code (part I)" http://250bpm.com/blog:37/comments/show Sat, 01 Aug 2015 21:41:55 +0000 http://250bpm.com/blog:37/comments/show#post-2020395 (no title) http://250bpm.com/blog:37/comments/show#post-2020395 Sun, 27 Apr 2014 05:57:08 +0000 martin_sustrik 939 I was actually considering to use Lua as a control language. It seemed pretty fitting. However, in the end I've looked at the populatity chart of different languages and picked the one from the top. Python turned out to be out of question due to its syntax and Ruby was the next one in the list.

]]> http://250bpm.com/blog:37/comments/show#post-2020249 (no title) http://250bpm.com/blog:37/comments/show#post-2020249 Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:22:50 +0000 Sean Conner You might want to look at Lua. One feature it has is that you can specify literal strings several ways.

1)

 "this is a\ntwo line 'string' with double quotes"

2)

 'this is a\ntwo line "string" with single quotes'

3)

 [[this is a three line string, but the normal escapes sequences aren't interpreted what you see is literally what you get]]

That last form can actually be embedded, because the actual delimiter is "[" "="* "[" and "]" "="* "]", where the number of equal signs are equal (if that makes sense). Perhaps an example of the code fragment in section 4 will be helpful:

 print [=[print [[print "Hello, world"]]]=]

(The print() function in Lua automatically adds the newline).

Just a thought.

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