[sriram_sun]

Thanks. Your revised syntax looks so much cleaner. I'm interested in learning Guix because I was hoping the syntax would be cleaner than Nix's. From a dev ops perspective Nix/Guix is the way to go. To me, the syntax plays a great part in coming up to speed and trying new stuff without going back to the manual.

My understanding is that Guix is 7 years in the making (at least) so is there even a remote possibility that syntax revisions like the one above will be considered?

[neilv]

I don't know anything about Guix itself yet, but you could ask the developers.

Scheme is great as an imperative (or declarative) configuration language, because the language is super-powerful, yet small and elegant. So many configuration languages end up being ad-hoc.