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by burky 50 days ago
This made me think of Perl.
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childintime 50 days ago
What about APL? Sigh, why not just use named functions?

I also doubt array comprehensions are a win, it feels like niche syntax.

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jampekka 50 days ago
> Sigh, why not just use named functions?

I.e. a Lisp?

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childintime 50 days ago
> Inspired by: CoffeeScript, Lisp, Ruby | Powered by: Bun
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jampekka 50 days ago
I meant that most Lisps are named functions/macros only (with some named special forms), and you are calling for that kind of syntax?
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