Matthieu Pizenberg (Feb 10 2025 at 08:03): Matthieu Pizenberg (Feb 10 2025 at 08:03):I just took some time to read the static dispatch proposal https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OUd0f4PQjH8jb6i1vEJ5DOnfpVBJbGTjnCakpXAYeT8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.vuo6e14bvfkt
My opinion is I only like the static dispatch part, and not the syntax changes. I would much prefer keeping the pipe and spaces plus partial application with holes.
"Hello"
|> replaceEach "l" "p"
|> replaceFirst "e" "i"
[-2, 0, 2] |> map (abs _ - 1)
If the reason is only "better autocomplete" with editors or "familiarity for OO programmers", it’s short-sighted IMO, because we can both improve autocomplete logic to recognize pipes, and in a world where LLMs are getting embedded in editors, we are starting to get much more powerful autocomplete abilities.
Spaces are much cleaner for the reader than parenthesis everywhere. It’s a clear syntax regression in my view.
Sam Mohr (Feb 10 2025 at 08:14):Richard Feldman said:
I know I rarely do the explicit "this is the way forward" thing, but it seems like this is a case where we need a really clear decision, so:
let's plan for Roc 0.1.0 to support parens-and-commas calling, and not whitespace calling.
After tons and tons of discussion on the subject, we're taking a break from yakshaving this one because we're pretty confident that Roc will be moving forwards with parentheses longterm
Sam Mohr (Feb 10 2025 at 08:15):Maybe in the future we revisit this discussion, but just to set expectations, we won't be changing our decision on this during these next 6 months at least, while we focus our efforts strongly on rewriting the compiler
Sam Mohr (Feb 10 2025 at 08:18):Consider reading the "reflecting on static dispatch" topic
Matthieu Pizenberg (Feb 10 2025 at 08:18):Understood. I still wanted to express my thoughts.
Sam Mohr (Feb 10 2025 at 08:18):Glad to have you do so!
Sam Mohr (Feb 10 2025 at 08:18):Just wanted to set expectations
Matthieu Pizenberg (Feb 10 2025 at 08:18):Sam Mohr said:
Consider reading the "reflecting on static dispatch" topic
I started to, but it was way to long for me to actually do, it’s why I opened a new thread.
jan kili (Feb 12 2025 at 21:49):I'm resolving all WSA defense/discussion threads in order to transition us into planning this: #contributing > deprecating WSA (whitespace application for function calls)
If you feel there's more to say here, feel free to un-resolve it!
Notification Bot (Feb 12 2025 at 21:49):JanCVanB has marked this topic as resolved.
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