Re: Ann: URI quasiquotes library

"Richard A. O'Keefe" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
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I am rather unhappy about magical variable names being exposed.
On 6/07/2013, at 9:56 AM, Michael Hendricks wrote:
> 
> 'relative URI reference' :-
>    __uri_qq_base = 'https://example.org/path/',
>    U = {|uri||to/resource|},
>    U = {|uri||/path/to/resource|},
>    U = 'https://example.org/path/to/resource'.

Why can't this be something like

'relative URI reference' :-
    {|with_uri_base|https://example.org/path/|},
>    U = {|uri||to/resource|},
>    U = {|uri||/path/to/resource|},
>    U = 'https://example.org/path/to/resource'.

I would hope that by doing it entirely within quasi-quoters
you could use variable names *guaranteed* to be inexpressible
in source code, or if not, at least unused in the current code.
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