Re: [gwl-devel] variable interpolation in code snippets

[zimoun]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 20:05, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Yes, I think this is pretty nice.  I’ll aim for something like this:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> process: foo
>   data-inputs
>     named-list
>       foo = 1
>       bar = hello
>       baz = world
>   procedure # bash { cat {{data-inputs.foo}} {{data-inputs.bar}} }
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Haven’t thought much about it, but “named-list” (or whatever the final
> name) would introduce a let binding or something.

Yes!
The "named-list" would be the name of the reader macro, right?
(joke: "named-list" is a better name than "xyz-list" ;-)


> (BTW: I don’t like that it’s called “data-inputs”. “inputs” is nicer and
> fits well to “outputs”.)

Agree.
It was on my list asking for (bikeshedding) changes. ;-)

>From my opinion, the change should be:
 - inputs -> packages
 - data-inputs -> inputs
 - outputs -> outputs


Cheers
--
simon