----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Weller" <HWell
...@googlemail.com>
To: <Qilang@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: Using Qi as a scripting language: queries
> Mark,
>> You can use any convention you wish.
> Sure but it would be better if people sharing code use the same
> conventions that
> provide the required level functionality.
>> The comments are programmable in 1.07.
> Sure, block-comments are programmable.
>> There is no single line comment though unless you want #\Newline as a
>> delim.
> I know, I posted support for single line comments which you can include in
> Qi if you
> would like it. Currently the comments start with ;; and end with a
> newline but
> I can easily change it to use // or make it programmable as you have for
> block-comments.
> Are you interested in including support for single line comments? If so I
> would
> be happy to send you all the code necessary to add this feature.
> I have also added support for expression comments as in Scheme and can
> send you
> the code for that as well if you would like to include it. Personally I
> think
> this is a really neat feature to aid code development. Currently I am
> using #;
> as the comment start character but I could change this to say /; or make
> it
> programmable if you think that is the best way to go.
>> ^ is not escaped. You need to use its character code to refer to it.
> OK, I will hack the Qi sources to change the ^ character to something less
> commonly used, e.g. a control sequence, so that I can standard regular
> expressions without alteration. It seems that \ and ^ are the only
> characters
> vanilla Qi uses for other purposes which interfere with their use in
> regular
> expressions.
>> That's about as much time on this as I have right now.
> OK, thanks for time. To save you effort in adding the features I have
> proposed
> I would be happy to send you all the code needed to include them if you
> would
> like to have them included.
> Henry.
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