[breuleux]

I guess I wanted macros and pattern matching without Lisp syntax, and I wanted to retain and use the JS/node ecosystem.

There's also a few language features I couldn't find anywhere else that I wanted to try out (my % operator, ad hoc exception classes, some pattern matching features like coercion and "match" inside a pattern to define sub-patterns, the each operator, some features of the macro system that I have yet to document, etc.)

It's kind of fun, really.

[visarga]

What does the % operator formally do? All I could find in the documentation was :

> Earl Grey's % operator can be used to easily build HTML, DOM, virtual DOM, and other things:

[breuleux]

There are examples below that statement for common usage, but if you want a deeper understanding:

    tag.xyz %
       property = value
       child1
       child2

Will produce the data structure:

    {tags = {"tag", ".xyz"}
     props = {property = value}
     children = {child1, child2}}

as an instance of the ENode class. Then, transformer functions can process the data structure to generate HTML or other things, e.g.

    require: /html
    html(thing)
    ==> <tag class="xyz" property="value">child1child2</tag>