On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Mark Volkmann
<r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Christian Vest Hansen
> <karmazi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Mark Volkmann
> > <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have an idea I'd like to float to see if there are reasons why it's
> >> a bad idea.
> >>
> >> What if Clojure had an alternate "surface" syntax that was translated
> >> into standard Clojure syntax by a kind of preprocessor?
> >
> > Do you by any chance mean "custom reader" when you say "preprocessor"? :)
>
> No. This would be a translation step before the code is fed to the
> current Clojure reader.
>

This sounds to me like a better fit for an editor plugin (that would
add parentheses as you type based on indentation, and optionally hide them
as well when editing the source).

-- 
Cosmin Stejerean
http://offbytwo.com

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