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Guile 3.0.10 now ships with support for parens-optional syntax (wisp)


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Its structure becomes apparent.« — Ricardo Wurmus in IRC, paraphrasing the wisp statement from his talk at FOSDEM 2019 about Guix for reproducible science in HPC with GWL. Commenters there expressed their love of paredit and parinfer, noted readable Racket, and especially Whitespace the language, mentioned that indentation helps adoption of Lisp and wished for Python with braces. To me that looks so close to C that it took me a moment to realize that it isn't just using a parser which allows omitting some special syntax of C, but actually an implementation of a C-generator in Scheme (similar in spirit to cython, which generates C from Python), which results in code that looks like a more regular version of C without superfluous parens.

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