Re: Lark - A surface syntax for Common Lisp

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
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On 15 Feb 2026, at 15:49, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On a more serious note, the existing S-expr surface syntax is a huge reason for the enormous utility of Lisp macros. Noisy syntaxae (sp?) just make that so much more difficult.

Have a look at macros in Rhombus.  It's not helped by the 'I wrote a PhD and here is how macros should work using post-abstract deconvolved automorphic lattices' thing, but even then, oh god.  CL macros are in many ways nasty, but what Rhombus does is not the fix.

--tim

Oh, sorry, I've just been told that it's reconvolved: deconvolved was two weeks ago.
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