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Interesting but I wish there were more functional languages that omit braces. I only know of F# and the js preprocessor livescript.

Seems like embracing lisp style is a must do for many lang-creators. Or is it just for the sake of parsing simplicity and dislike of whitespace significance?

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Parentheses are rarely needed in Haskell. You can even use the $ operator to specify the order of evaluation, eg. concat $ replicate 3 "foo" == concat (replicate 3 "foo").

You can add erlang/elixir to the list of paren-free functional languages.

No you cannot.

Mind expanding?

edit: wait, are we talking about no parentheses at all? If so, I'm wrong. I meant lisp-like.

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