On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote:
> #{foo bar baz} is somewhat ugly. It occurs to me that one could modify
> the reader to additionally accept
>
> {{foo bar baz}}
My concern is that {{1 2 3 4}5} is currently legal - a map with a map
as a key and 5 as the value. That means that the reader couldn't tell
if {{ introduced your set notation or the start of a nested map
without looking arbitrarily far ahead. And that problem gets worse if
you encounter {{{ or {{{{ or... {{{ could introduce a nested map, a
map of your sets or one of your sets containing a map...
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