[cardanome]

I don't mind the cruft. I think a bit of harmless quirks can give a language character.

It actually makes the learning easier. Now that I know the story why, I have memorized how elements are seperated in OCaml for probably the rest of my life. I just need to remember the story.

Plus not reusing symbols for multiple syntactic purposes actually fits nicely into the general Ocaml philosophy. Plus is makes my complexity-hating, minimalist heart happy.

Though I am at that point in my life where I don't really care about syntax that much to begin with. Yes syntactic complexity matters. How fast it can be parsed, how easy macros are implemented, these things can matter but the actual syntax: boring. White-space sensitive or not, curly braces or begin/end and all that stuff is so dull. I am happy with whatever.