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I love everything about MoonScript except for that damn backslash. I think it's much nicer to use than Lua, but it still bugs me, bikeshedding be damned. The as

I love everything about MoonScript except for that damn backslash. I think it's much nicer to use than Lua, but it still bugs me, bikeshedding be damned. The asymmetry, the fact that no other language (that I know of) uses it for a similar purpose, just the look of it in between text... I once came close to trying to create a near-identical fork of the project which changed the backslash to something else, but I figured it'd be pretty pointless. I know I'm definitely not the only one who dislikes it, at least.

MaxBarraclough 7y ago
You could create a new language that compiles to MoonScript ;-P
klibertp 7y ago
> I know I'm definitely not the only one who dislikes it, at least. You're not. In my fork, I plan to replace `\` with `:` and `:` with `=`, so it's closer to Lua, and less irritating to look at. I need to figure out how to code that while retaining some backward compatibility, but "fixing" this is one of the major goals of my fork.
nonbirithm 7y ago
The obscure Japan-only language Hot Soup Processor used backslash as mod. http://www.onionsoft.net/hsp/v33/doclib/hspprog.htm#EXPRESSION http://www.onionsoft.net/hsp/v33/doclib/hspprog.htm#EXPRESSI... I also hate it (along with HSP in general). Anything that exists outside the grain of programming language conventions so baked in as basic arithmetic operators throws me off.
eggy 7y ago
Being a J programmer [1], the order or placement of ASCII characters does not bother me, so I think it's about familiarity, habit and ability to see past the syntax. [1] https://www.jsoftware.com/#/ https://www.jsoftware.com/#/