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Comment by kazinator | Hacker News Reader

> C has "saved" you the work of putting parentheses around (a+b) at the cost of making you add commas to everything.

Not only that but also at the cost of putting a comma which is spelled + between all the terms of a addition:

  myfunction(a(),b()+c()+d()+e()+f(),g())
 
  (myfunction(a)(+(b)(c)(d)(e)(f))(g))

could just as well be

  myfunction(a() +(b() c() d() e() f()) g())

with the condition that there is no space between the symbol and the opening parenthesis

I’m working on a syntax for an object oriented lisp-like thats basically this (the self receiver is implied)

    .myfunction(.a .b.+(.c).+(.d).+(.f) .g)

though making binary arithmetic operations singly-dispatched methods of the number class may be a mistake.