Re: C-esque syntax

[Veli-Pekka Tätilä <vtatila@...>]

From: "Kenneth Forsbäck" <kenneth.forsback@pp.inet.fi>
> Does anyone have any snippet of lua code, modified lua, or something else 
> that would allow me to use C-esque syntax, lua is starting to hurt my 
> eyes.
I could say the same about C giving me a headache, <grin>.

The extremely clean English-like syntax is one of the very reasons why I 
like Lua to begin with, though by no means the only, or the most significant 
one. This is a bit of a special case, but it just goes to show that needs 
may be different. I'm programming with a screen reader producing synthetic 
speech, so in that context Lua is so much easier to parse mentally. Consider 
the expressions:

Lua: while true do
C: for(;;) {

Spoken:

Lua: while true do
C: for left paren semi colon semi colon right paren left brace

And some more:

Lua: if not x then x = y end
C: if(! x) { x = y; }

Their meaning is slightly different (0 being true in Lua), but still. 
Spoken:

Lua: if not x then x equals y end
C: if left paren exclamation x right paren left brace x equals y semi colon 
right brace
Oh yeah, and I don't even want to mention explicit dereferencing and 
function pointers.

At the end of the day it is not about syntax. I can even tolerate Emacs Lisp 
spoken out loud programmatically, with heavy use of line breaks and ending 
comments, that is.

Hope this gives you a different perspective. Though mind you this is the 
special case of programming legally blind.

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