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by JonChesterfield 1595 days ago
Curious, this suggests (lambda a b form) to go along with (let a 42 form). I've seen let without the extra parens but not define or lambda. Thanks for the aside.
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Yeah, can't remember if I've seen that in the wild either before. Just as a disclaimer, the idea is off-the-cuff and I'm not 100% it would work in practice or be beneficial beyond containing less parenthesizes. You wouldn't be able to have multiple forms that gets evaluated for example, without having to wrap it in something like `do`, is the first argument against it. But maybe multiple forms in the body is less common than one in the first place.

Many questions arise, for a small amount of benefit (imo), so not sure it's worth it.