I can't believe I'm proposing another change to curly-infix, that's been put in
stone for ages. But after fiddling with curly-infix, I have a new idea for
handling one and two parameters (3+ parameters are unchanged).
Currently, you can do:
{a + b + c}
But for unary operations, you must do this with only curly-infix:
{(- a) + b + c}
or you can do this if you're using neoteric-expressions:
{-(a) + b + c}
We might make "normal" use of curly-infix more consistent if we interpreted:
* Two-parameter {X Y} maps to (X Y).
* One-parameter {X} maps to X - note that there is NO list.
Then you could do this with just curly-infix:
{{- a} + b + c}
and you could do this with neoteric-expressions:
{-{a} + b + c}
The latter one is because -{a} maps to (- {a}) maps to (- a).
Note that you still use f(a b ...) for function calls when you have a normal
function call with multiple parameters.
Interestingly, {X} makes our (. SYMBOL) escape mechanism suddenly unnecessary,
as long as neoteric-expressions *ALWAYS* also support curly-infix. I'm not
sure we want to remove (. e), though.
Although you could still have improper lists with this, I think adding these
adds enough rules that improper lists should NOT be added at the same time.
--- David A. Wheeler
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