Francois Rey, Yes I've been following that project. They're going for purity, which means reimplementing a lot of standard java stuff in Frege. Cool project, but what I really want is Clojure. Everything Clojure without the parens. So you'd get lists, and homoiconicity, and all the Clojure libs, but it would look different.
Part of posting here is to gauge whether, if I wrote such a thing to scratch my own itch, anyone else would like it. So far I'm getting a pretty sincere "no" it seems. It's partially a bad survey because the people here are the people who like it here. Greg, Xtext is new to me, I'll look at it. Antlr is used in a project I'm getting paid for right now, so I might try that. Gary, I think this is the essence of the maintainability problem. The terseness of Clojure is pleasurable to the programmer, and they don't compensate with documentation or longer function names. What you get is a short statement that requires detangling levels of macros and abstractions to understand. Honestly I wish programmers had to pay $20 to write a macro. Macros are great but should very very rarely be used. Granted none of this would be fundamentally changed with a new syntax, but I feel like if one didn't begin a line with a paren, one might begin more lines instead of nesting deeper; I could easily be wrong about that. Travis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
