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Aug 9, 2016 at 00:46
Lispers have an embarrassment of riches with control structures. The question is not 'can I express it this way?' but 'should I?'.

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Mar 19, 2020 at 07:20
The Guile contributors are some extremely talented lispers. Missing a parenthesis in lisp docs is done by every lisper once in a while though :)
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Aug 2, 2019 at 21:11
It always makes me smile that lispers use the term "earmuffs" to refer to variables named *foo*. https://lisp-lang.org/style-guide/#variables As far as I'm aware this particular name isn't used in other communities. Paired * is rare elsewhere, but lisp programmers are no stranger to paired syntax!
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Jul 14, 2019 at 16:47
@cwebber@octodon.social Interesting choice. So this will be the primary language, not some IR? I don't think I've seen any lisps pivot to non-paren syntax though. I can only think of Wisp and sweet-expressions (libraries with limited adoption AFAICT) and Dylan (a separate language made by lispers). What pivots did you have in mind?