[e-lang] Searching for a keyword

[Marc Stiegler]

Just to put in my 2 cents, I like "given". It reads well.

--marcs

Kevin Reid wrote:
> On May 4, 2006, at 12:13, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>> Mark S. Miller wrote:
>>> We don't currently have a concrete syntax for trinary-define which  
>>> anyone
>>> likes. For purposes of discussion, we're using the syntax
>>>
>>>      e ::= keyword (e1, e2) =~ p
>> This is probably a crazy idea, but how about "given"?
>>
>>      given foo =~ [a,b]        # Given that foo matches [a,b] ...
>>      ...a...b...
> 
> (This would be ambiguous with MatchBindExpr.)
> 
>>      given (foo,ej) =~ [a,b]   # Given that foo matches [a,b] ...
>>      ...a...b...               # (But if it can't, complain to ej)
>>
>>      if (foo) =~ [a,b] {       # If foo matches [a,b], then ...
>>          ...a...b...
> 
> I mostly like the way it reads, but it is strange.
>