gistfile1.txt

# These are just a few ideas. The first is supported by the current concept;
# it’s a bit like heredocs in other languages, only for blocks instead of
# strings. And it’s dependent on meaningful indentation.

# The second essentially involves falling back to curly braces when meaningful
# whitespace breaks down; I’m not a huge fan of that.

# The third is a radical system involving Unicode box-drawing characters… it’s
# certainly *insane* enough to fit in well with the rest of Paws’ insanity.
# Unfortunately, it doesn’t play well with dumb editors; how useful is a
# language that’s only editable from within an intelligent editor? That’s no
# better, really, than a language that is useless without an IDE. (Looking at
# you, Java, C++, and Cocoa…)

scope
  my.func(foo : 123, a.result ? function, bar : 456)
    # contents of a.result
    # more contents of a.result
  # stuff after the call to my.func
  
  my.func(foo : 123, a.result ? function, a.callback : function, bar : 456)
    # contents of a.callback
    # more contents of a.callback
  # a.result will be an empty function, as there is no syntactic way to define statements for it
  # stuff after the call to my.func
  
  # --- -- --- /!\ --- -- --- #
  
  my.func(foo : 123, a.result ? {
# contents of a.result
# the initial indentation here is meaningless; brackets override all indentation up to this point
# (so this is still a child of the scope at the top, as are all the statements that continue after this function)
  }, bar : 456)
  # stuff after the call to my.func
  
  my.func(foo : 123, a.result ? {
# contents of a.result
# the initial indentation here is meaningless; brackets override all indentation up to this point
# (so this is still a child of the scope at the top, as are all the statements that continue after this function)
  }, a.callback : {
    # contents of a.callback
    # more contents of a.callback
  }, bar : 456)
  # stuff after the call to my.func
  
  # --- -- --- /!\ --- -- --- #
  
  my.func(foo : 123, a.result ? function, bar : 456)
  ┬ # contents of a.result
  └ # more contents of a.result
  # stuff after the call to my.func
  
  my.func(foo : 123, a.result ? function, a.callback : function, bar : 456)
  ┬ # contents of a.result
  └ # more contents of a.result
  ┬   # contents of a.callback
  │   # initial indentation is meaningless here, as well, because the box drawing characters explicitly define the level
  └   # more contents of a.callback
  # stuff after the call to my.func