JTP concept

Instead of a new string literal, I decided to do something closer to the JTP idea.  I will have a new statement called an Output Statement that looks like this:

%>1 + 1 = <%=1+1%><%

This can have multiple lines in it, so this also works:

%>
1 + 1 = <%=1+1%>
1 + 2 = <%=1+2%>
<%

Since this is nothing more than a statement, it can be freely mixed with other statement.  The difference from JTP is that there is no initial <% or ending %>.  But like JTP, this send output to standard out, to the same place that print() sends output.

done in rev 55

It looks good.

closing thread

I changed my mind about how this should work.  Rather than an Output Statement, I want this syntax to be a table constructor that constructs a list.  This list can be output or whatever.  So if there is an "output" command, the examples become:

output %>1 + 1 = <%=1+1%><%

and

output %>
1 + 1 = <%=1+1%>
1 + 2 = <%=1+2%>
<%

The idea of a table constructor doesn't work because an expression may return nil which would leave a hole in the list.  Instead I will treat this syntax as varargs for a function call.

I generalized this to be an expression that returns multiple results in rev 108.  closing thread.