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by DNied 1947 days ago
Very interesting! Maybe preprocessors really are the way to go for PHP, even if it were just for ironing out its inconsistencies (not to mention implementing a whole new language on top of it, as in this case).

But why those square brackets for argument lists? That seems unnecessary.
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richeyryan 1947 days ago
It's a Clojure-ism. The arguments are passed as a vector.

https://clojure.org/guides/learn/functions

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progre 1947 days ago
I'm no lisper but I think arguments are always defined in an array?
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capableweb 1947 days ago
Clearly not a lisper :D But no worries.

No, it's not a array, it's a vector.

And no it's not always defined as a vector, it's a particular trait of Clojure. In Common Lisp you'd use a list "(my arguments)" instead, for example.

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progre 1947 days ago
Always happy to learn, thank you! Clojure is my only real venture in to lisp land (I know some don't consider Clojure lispy enough to be a real lisp)
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