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1 point by seertaak 4452 days ago | link | parent

Thanks for the tip about the formatting!

No, currently attempting to evaluate () is an error (and a bad crash with no error message, I'm embarrassed to say! [but now fixed and pushed]).

Your argument regarding () is pretty convincing. It's a bad idea. But I find the full-stop notation a bit jarring, not sure why. I'll try it and see if I get used to it... And I didn't want to tread on the "!" real-estate, given that's it's commonly used in identifiers.

I have to say I still lean slightly towards preferring a default of invocation for 0-arity functions, and using the "val" (again, id) function for passing the function itself.

Maybe the best approach is to offer a define-syntax functionality which somehow corrects the anomality (by visiting the AST and reducing without evaluating) before applying the macro transform. But that's quite possibly another can of worms...



1 point by seertaak 4451 days ago | link

Having slept on this, I think I'm going to remove the (obj) ==> obj reduction. I think the gain is not enough to compensate the loss of transparency.

It's not even that big of a loss, since you can write:

    if (condition)
        true-clause   // 4-indent.
        false-clause

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