Re: The beauty of LATEX

Dave Abrahams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
on Fri Oct 21 2011, Joel de Guzman <joel-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:

> The language should not be newline nor comment sensitive.

Really, you intend to require brackets around every paragraph?  Or do I
misunderstand your meaning?

>> This syntax
>> works in quickbook because it's always nested inside another block
>> which terminates it, in a more general purpose language this might not
>> always be the case.
>
> It's just like S-expressions. 

Not so sure... (a)(b) is always two S-expressions and can't be
recognized as a single list, but AFAICT [a][b] might be a list or it
might be a pair of lists.  Am I missing something?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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