Re: [racket-users] The case, and a proposal, for elegant syntax in #lang racket2

2019-07-18 Thread Robert R.
Let me revise what I said actually, in the spirit of optimism. If an alternate syntax is considered, one thing I would suggest that is somewhat in line with Justin, is something like “visually structured data”. I think as humans we prefer to see things and have them be simple and interesting, a

Re: [racket-users] The case, and a proposal, for elegant syntax in #lang racket2

2019-07-18 Thread Robert R.
On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 3:47:51 PM UTC-4, Justin Zamora wrote: > > > (string (string-ref (person-first john) 0) > (string-ref (person-middle john) 0) > (string-ref (person-last john) 0)) > > There's a load of cognitive and syntactic overhead compared to something > like: