I can't see the community migrating to such a syntax, even if somebody bothered to implement a reader for it. For me, the parentheses are vital in editing my source code. With lisp, I'm editing faster than with any other language, thanks to paredit.
Regarding people seeing parens as an obstacle: Of all the arguments one could make against Clojure as a strict, dynamically typed, lexically scoped, JVM hosted lisp; when I hear someone complaining about the parens I conclude that this person didn't look at the real merits and trade-offs of clojure and/or didn't understand them. While I still think, we should cater to them as users, introducing a new surface syntax doesn't strike me as a net win. I'm happy to gain them as users, as soon as their company switches to clojure ;-) If you still want to go down that route, have a look at dylan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language) -- -- 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/groups/opt_out.
