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by pjmlp 111 days ago
I have an idea, maybe we could represent that AST as parenthesis.
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itishappy 111 days ago
That's cool, but I might prefer semantic whitespace. Sure would be neat if we could both work with the same code in our preferred forms.
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pjmlp 111 days ago
Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
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itishappy 111 days ago
Ah yes, now there is a LISP I can get behind!
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ocimbote 111 days ago
Honestly, we can do better than LISPs.

Just use curly brackets and boom. LISP 3k.

You're welcome.

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pjmlp 111 days ago
It can even be used to represent serialized objects...
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