None here.

Longer term, I wonder whether our DSL syntax is too weak?

Even the ability to declare blocks would be nicer than long lines (and line split markers):-

then [Book the customer for the flight]
    {
        $f.setAvailable( $f.getAvailable() - 1 );
        update( $f );
        Booking booking = new Booking();
        booking.setCustomer( $r.getCustomer() );
        booking.setFlight( $f );
        insert( booking );
    }


On 4 December 2010 18:33, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com> wrote:
Currently each entry must be a single line of text. This results in long lines, especially on the RHS.

I have experimentally inserted a transformation of the DSL text (in  DSLTokenizedMappingFile)
which converts '\'+EOL on the fly to a space. (The passed-in reader is read into a buffer, '\'+EOL
is translated to space, and EOLs are inserted later to readjust the line number.) In a text editor,
I can now write, e.g.,

then][][Bb]ook the customer for the flight=\
  $f.setAvailable( $f.getAvailable() - 1 );\
  update( $f );                            \
  Booking booking = new Booking();         \
  booking.setCustomer( $r.getCustomer() ); \
  booking.setFlight( $f );                 \
  insert( booking );

Of course, the DSL editor will not preserve this, but future development might provide more
convenient editing there, too.

Any objections?
-W

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