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Optional parenthesis and optional separators always force me to pause and parse the code instead of scanning it, because I need to establish the context of every single operation.

I'm sure Carp is interesting, but I would be so unproductive in it.

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What do you mean by optional parentheses? Are you referring to the square brackets? Carp is inspired by Clojure, and in both [] is a reader macro that instantiates an array (a vector, as opposed to a list). I'm not a fan of using the array syntax to define function arguments.

I'm not sure what you mean by optional parenthesis. I'd say optional separators are a legacy feature, I don't think anyone writes Carp with separators.

Note: I'm a contributor.

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