Noah Perks Sloan iamnoah
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December 15, 2015 15:49
Alternate Clojure syntax (work in progress...and NOT an April Fool's joke)
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| The majority of parens in Clojure are redundant if we just say that all | |
| n > 1 tokens in a line are arguments to the first token. Parens can be | |
| added in a more C-style to disambiguate within a line. Newline plus | |
| indent expands argument list over multiple lines and each of those | |
| lines gets the original "one-line" treatment. Introducing an "ignore | |
| indent" sigil allows sugaring up the structure. The majority of calls | |
| can be expressed in one line with no parens at all. | |
| Hello world: |