[Versa] Versa issue: quote madness

[Michael Olson]

On Aug 12, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> Quotes in Versa can get badly out of hand.  I've commented on this
> before, but here's Kyle LeBlanc:
>
> http://lists.fourthought.com/pipermail/4suite/2004-October/012915.html
>
> I think that for Versa 2.0 we should find a better syntax for
> subexpressions, and that they should be promoted to first class
> constructs.
>
> Basically first class functions which are optionally anonymous.
>

How about {}?

So the idea is that any where a "expression" is require, if it is  
wrapped in {} it would be evaluated in the current context?



If we go that far, I think we should change absolute URIs to match NT,  
just to make life easier on all evolved.

Mike

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