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Re: Removing influences from a language

From bart <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.misc
Subject Re: Removing influences from a language
Date 2025-11-10 01:12 +0000
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On 10/11/2025 01:02, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:56:05 +0000, bart wrote:
> 
>> Note that if such data is machine-generated and machine-processed, then
>> I don't have any objection to using brackets.
> 
> That table example of mine was very much human-generated and human-
> maintained.
> 
> We have discussed machine-generated data before; as I said then, I feel
> such things, particularly long screeds of inscrutable-looking numbers,
> have no place in human-maintained source code.


Well, I don't prohibit such uses of brackets, I just don't like them 
used across multiple lines. I'm on the lookup for better, more robust 
methods. But the ATM, they have to be used in many cases.

I also have a small problem with all those trailing commas.

Trailing semicolons on statements have been solved; could we do the same 
with commas?

I did do some experiments, but it was too hard to be certain of being in 
the right context (for newlines to map into commas rather than 
semicolons), for a user to be confident of using the feature.

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Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-08 16:16 +0000
  Re: Removing influences from a language Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2025-11-09 12:30 +0200
    Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-11-09 12:22 +0100
      Re: Removing influences from a language "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2025-11-09 14:20 +0100
      Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-09 14:09 +0000
        Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-11-09 15:40 +0100
          Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-09 15:17 +0000
            Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-11-09 17:42 +0100
              Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-09 20:07 +0000
              Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-02 02:32 +0000
            Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-09 23:35 +0000
              Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-10 00:56 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-10 01:02 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-10 01:12 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-10 03:51 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-11-10 09:14 +0100
                Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-10 11:00 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-11-10 14:13 +0100
                Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-10 16:20 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-11-10 17:33 +0100
                Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-10 21:01 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-11-11 12:33 +0100
                Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-02 03:13 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-11-11 12:59 +0100
                Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-11 15:08 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-11 20:44 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-11 23:16 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-02 03:09 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-02-02 11:32 +0100
                Re: Removing influences from a language Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-02-02 16:32 +0100
                Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-08 15:52 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-02-08 17:51 +0100
                Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-09 16:58 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-09 18:01 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-09 23:44 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-10 06:41 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-10 14:40 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-09 23:40 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-05 19:49 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-06 03:01 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-02-11 12:07 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-11 22:44 +0000
                Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-02-12 16:56 +0100
                Re: Removing influences from a language Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-02-08 11:01 +0200
                Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-02-08 14:37 +0100
                Re: Removing influences from a language Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-02-08 15:57 +0200
                Re: Removing influences from a language David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-02-08 16:34 +0100
              Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-02 02:39 +0000
          Re: Removing influences from a language Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-02-02 02:07 +0000
    Re: Removing influences from a language Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-09 20:59 +0000
  Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-13 17:16 +0000
  Re: Removing influences from a language bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-11-13 22:39 +0000

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