> What if Clojure had an alternate "surface" syntax that was translated > into standard Clojure syntax by a kind of preprocessor? > > Many people that don't like Lisp dialects don't like them because of > the parentheses.
Agreed the parentheses take getting used to, and I respect that you want to expand the Clojure community by helping parentheses-adverse people out. It seems to me that introducing a second syntax may help beginners but will make things worse the longer they use it. For example, if a second-syntax user has a problem, where should they go for help? Should there be two Clojure forums, one for the Lisp syntax and one for the second syntax? Should there be two versions of the documentation, one written in the second syntax? Which syntax should libraries be written in? Of course as long as there aren't any bugs in the preprocessor, code written in the two syntaxes should be compatible, but if I use the second syntax because I don't want to adjust to parentheses, what happens if I need to read library code that's been written using Lisp syntax? Bill Smith --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
