[seanstrom]

Not a lisp apologist haha, but I think Clojure tries to use fewer smooth parens “()” in general. Square parens “[]” and curly parens “{}” are used to help with things like variable declarations and stuff like data structures.

I recently started using Clojure and I’ve used languages like C#, JavaScript, and Python a lot. My two cents is that a Clojure-like language should try to embrace the aesthetics of a white-space language like Python, but use the parens as clues for scopes or blocks. So much could be done with formatting rules that just make parens easier to scan without some extra IDE highlighting or something.

The best part of parens is that you can try to pick a consistent format, but ya know that sometimes doesn’t happen because everybody likes to use parens differently lol.