[Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom wiki

[root]

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Currently, as you know, code is delimited in axiom's pamphlet files
using a special "chunk" syntax:

<<chunk name>>=                             <<== define code here
     code
@

and it gets expanded when the "chunk name" gets referenced:

<<chunk name>>                              <<== expand code here


It occurs to me that we could easily make this more "latex-like" thus:

\begin{chunk}[chunk name]
    code
\end{chunk}

\expand{chunk}[chunk name]


This would be "pseudo-latex" because the only difference between the
current chunk naming method and the latex-like chunk naming method
is syntactic. The pamphlet file would still expand exactly as before.
Only the program that collects and expands chunks (noweb) needs to change.

If we move to the latex syntax then it would be easy to define latex
environment macros which would do something harmless.

Tim