Re: [Readable-discuss] Using readable with clojure

[David A. W. <dwh...@dw...>]

Not at all. The whole point is to have a syntax that is general, and not tied to a particular semantic. Clearly it needs to be useful for a given semantic, but not tied to it.

On October 26, 2014 10:43:17 PM EDT, John Cowan <co...@me...> wrote:
>David A. Wheeler scripsit:
>
>> In Clojure, "{" is already taken for maps, and "#{" for sets.  That
>interferes with {...} for infix.
>
>More importantly, [] is used to enclose lambda variables and in other
>situations in which Lisps use () for something other than application.
>I think that Readable would have to be substantially rethought, or at
>least enhanced greatly to understand the syntax (not just lexical
>syntax,
>but keyword syntax) of Clojure in order to be usable at all.
>
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