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1 point by evanrmurphy 4778 days ago | link | parent

> alists that you presently have to express with '((x 1) (y 2)) could be contracted to (x.1 y.2).

Is there a general interest in moving ssyntax functionality to the reader? I've found some past discussions about it but wanted to know the present sentiment.

If ssyntax was processed at the reader-level, it would help in this particular scenario because then '(x.1 y.2) could evaluate to ((x 1) (y 2)) instead of (x.1 y.2).



3 points by aw 4778 days ago | link

Is there a general interest in moving ssyntax functionality to the reader?

In the Arc runtime project, that was my assumption behind my choosing my matching library to implement the reader in Arc. The matching library is way more powerful than what would be needed to simply replace the Racket reader as-is; the goal is that when people want to experiment with different kinds of syntaxes or with extending ssyntax to work in more cases it will be easy to do.

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1 point by evanrmurphy 4778 days ago | link

That's good to know, thanks. :)

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