It wasn't supposed to be! My early syntax guideline was "there's always more vertical space in the buffer", which I still mostly believe. But the FP expression language squad showed up and I lost. IMO the only half-decent way to do an expression language is sexps.
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That's an interesting point. Is the logic something like: expr languages need to delimit exprs, the only reasonable way to delimit exprs is surround with brackets, but for consistency you should just have that everywhere, so that implies sexps?
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That is .. pretty much my conclusion, yes. Though if you want to avoid wearing our your shift key, maybe [square brackets]? :)
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(Yeah I know, this is one of those things I have to remind myself of every time I get half-way into making something that leans on square brackets too heavily, it's super sad because they're obviously the best brackets.)
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Can just make them interchangeable, at the expense of some precious ASCII real estate
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Spoken like a true concatenative minimalist. So unconcerned with the precious few plausible paired tokens, you're wiling to make two of them _synonyms_. How delightful / horrible!
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In roughly ascending order of accursedness:
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: ;
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