"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> But even then I must say that I'd actually not like the syntax -
> for POV needs, it would mean an unreasonably large number of
> braces-inside-parentheses "({ ... })" where only one type of
> brackets would suffice; and a host of "new" statements which -
> as proven by current SDL - shouldn't really be necessary.
> Not to speak of all the colons (":").

There's always the option of inserting a pre-processor into the pipeline, which
could assume new objects if an object class is supplied, or existing objects if
its reference is supplied; no need for "new" in the user's SDL source. The
properties would have obvious "property value" construction.

My overall thought is that we could use existing language parsers/compilers, to
take advantage of the superior structuring, and pre-process any POV object
definitions into that language, so that users can create appropriately precise
SDL source.

p.s. I might be confusing some Java concepts with JavaScript concepts, thinking
in particular about the class structuring that JavaScript might not support -
apologies for that; I learned [sic] the two at around the same time. Even so,
then

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