it is legitimate too bad that paul graham didn't come to terms with kernel before writing bel you might say he exhibited functional fixedness
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Replying to @djinnius
I hadn't heard of it. But Bel solves what seems to be his big problem with other Lisp dialects, that "special-form combiners are second-class objects."
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Replying to @paulg
ok the pun was the only part of this tweet which was really load-bearing but that fact about special forms was not obvious from the Bel spec! I'll have to spend more time with the source code
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One question I had when I first read your draft was what happens to nested lists: (mac foo(a b) `(cons ,a ,b)) (apply foo '(11 (12 13))) Expected: (11 12 13) But it might blow up if it macroexpands to (cons 11 (12 13)) (from almost 10 years ago: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=16378 )
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