I agree, mixing `(,form ,x) and `(,x ,form) is really ugly and I do like
animals!dog!thaddeus!age
much better - I forgot arc could do that lol.
Also, if anyone were really caught up on the strings as keys hiccup, the idiomatic approach for arc would likely be this: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=13006. If one could only find a pleasant & available symbol.