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by dontlaugh 458 days ago
The danger is you might decide to just keep the s-exprs.
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I almost did ;-)

I added a few improvements to help with legibility which made it bearable to program with sexpr.

But arithmetic expressions and (chaining of) unary operators was just too painful, e.g.

(= (. (^ ptr) file) ...)

instead of

ptr^.field = ...