<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I don't want to be a wet blanket but I feel that in general having blanks between operators is a Good Thing which improves legibility. So I don't really like a syntax change which supports not having blanks between operators.<br><br>Robert<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Pedram Nimreezi" <mc@majorcomputing.com><br><b>To: </b>"Sean Cribbs" <sean@basho.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"Erlang Patches" <erlang-patches@erlang.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, 22 April, 2013 11:06:24 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [erlang-patches] Scan "=<<" as something useful<br><br><div dir="ltr">Good erlang wart to remove... +1</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Sean Cribbs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@basho.com" target="_blank">sean@basho.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I can't count how many times this has bitten me, kudos.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Anthony Ramine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:n.oxyde@gmail.com" target="_blank">n.oxyde@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
I've noticed that Erlang/OTP own code tend to be space-free, e.g. {a,<br>
b} is rather written as {a,b}. Then there is the occasional Bin=<br>
<<42>> with a space because erl_scan will scans "=<<" as '=<','<'<br>
instead of '=','<<'. This patch teaches erl_scan how to not do that.<br>
<br>
There is no backwards compatibility problem as '=<','<' can't appear<br>
in valid code.<br>
<br>
git fetch <a href="https://github.com/nox/otp.git" target="_blank">https://github.com/nox/otp.git</a> disambiguate-equal-binary<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/disambiguate-equal-binary" target="_blank">https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/disambiguate-equal-binary</a><br>
<a href="https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/disambiguate-equal-binary.patch" target="_blank">https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/disambiguate-equal-binary.patch</a><br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
--<br>
Anthony Ramine<br>
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