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Seems perfectly sound to me. redditers will have to find something new (possibly - or even probably - artificial) thing to rag on, I guess. Again, I'm not sure why, but it seems to be a favorite activity of online communities to try to criticize anything they can. It feels like there should be an official term for this phenomenon (that is, other than "trolling"; more like WHY it happens), but alas my research fails me. Help, anyone?

As an aside about Arc, but not to harass you:

If you don't mind my asking of silly questions, I have noticed that in provided snippets the syntax you seem to make use of the most is the [_] notation even though you had some additional ideas kicking around originally (e.g., x:y for (x 'y), allowing infix math, letting users define syntax). Are you still planning to include / already have these (and possibly more) syntactical forms? What of parentheses inference (not as a matter of hating parens, but just as something included in your initial writings that hasn't seemed to surface in code snippets)? Any new thoughts about such things?



I'm still considering other syntax, but I want to take my time deciding. Adding syntax is like a constitutional amendment.

I spent a couple days working on getting rid of parentheses, and it got really ugly.




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