I have a (possibly controversial, possibly insanely stupid) feature
request:
So, curly infix is great because it's simple to understand, easy to
implement, and retains homoiconicity. However, it would be *really* nice to
be able to define infix operators that don't need to be surrounded by curly
braces, as in haskell:
infixl 6 +++
infixr 7 ***,///
where "infixl" denotes left associativity, and "infixr" denotes right
associativity. The numbers 6 and 7 are the precedence levels. The lisp
equivalent, I guess would be something like:
(infixl 6 +++)
> (infixr 7 *** ///)
And then all instances of +++, ***, and /// symbols would be treated as
infix operators, no curly braces required. Having this capability would
make lisp shells, e.g. scsh, extremely natual to use, and a real competitor
to existing shell scripting languages.
I am aware that what I am suggesting amounts to blasphemy in LISP circles.
You'd have to implement this functionality into the reader as it would need
to be applied globally to the entire AST. I know this is a crazy request
but it would be *so* nice. Anyway, feel free to ignore or criticize this
request. Thanks!
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