Now that I have a nice design for a text editor widget, I've been putting it through its paces, particularly for ideas like syntax highlighting and something I call "syntax geometry". Here's a kinda whimsical toy where '+' flips the direction of writing from horizontal to vertical and vice versa. I only had to put this rule in in one place, and all my support for editing, moving and clicking on the screen to position the cursor continues to work.

(I did need to generalize a couple of things to get to this point.)

Can anyone think of potential uses for syntax geometry?

So.. it's linear, but rendered along a winding path? Neat!

Yeah, this is all one "line" of text. a*(b/c)

🎪 github.com/nuno-faria/tetris-sql

Why is ab higher than * and + while 1 is vertically centered?

I see adding the / between b/c also affects the vertical position of * that precedes it. So it's not simply "char can affect direction of writing after it" as in previous example. Is it AST-backed now in some way? Precedence?

Mandatory potential use: playing snake 🍒⋯🐍

ab is treated like a single name.

I have bugs. Many of them are now fixed. This was a snapshot on a specific day.

And yes I'm running a parser on every frame!

that's... not off kilter actually :-)

The other solution is to ask the W3C to change URI syntax 😉