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Re: templates, macros and spaces

by Andy Little :: Rate this Message:

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"David Abrahams" wrote

> John Maddock wrote
>
>> So.... I'm hoping that this can be solved by changing the pretty-printing
>> code, but I have suspicions that the problems may run deeper.
>
> In ReST they have a "breaking non-space."  That is, if you
> backslash-escape a space character, you get something that can
> separate tokens without generating any space in the output:
>
>  x\ super(2)
>
> In quickbook maybe that should be:
>
>  x[]super(2)
>
> Although I think I might prefer:
>
>  x!super(2)
>
> An exclamation point with no whitespace on either side is sufficiently
> rare, I think.


How about a function that performs concatenation,:

 [cat lhs rhs]

It may be more legible. The use of x!super(2) is somewhat cryptic IMO.

regards
Andy Little



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