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1 point by dreeves 6104 days ago | link | parent

For those saying "but! but! macros!" please read section 7 of http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html

This is about syntactic sugar only. Everything is still s-expressions underneath.

I don't know the right way to do this yet (mathematica is the best way I've seen so far) but one thing I'd like to implore Paul to do:

Forbid all special characters in symbol names. Nice as they are, they will be more valuable as syntactic sugar.

(Parting thought:

  x*2+7 - f(5/2,y+8)
vs

  (- (+ (* x 2) 7) (f (/ 5 2) (+ y 8)))

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