lambda_garden

The issues I raised were pretty concrete, and not merely "this symbol is better than that symbol"

Why are people so enthused about Python syntax?

Some problems off the top of my head:

- The lack of new variable declaration keyword makes scopes less explicit. nonlocal is not simpler in the large than `let x = ...`

- The lack of multi-line lambdas is very limiting for anyone coming from JS, C#, Rust, Kotlin... heck even Java

- The ternary operator (... if ... else ...) is needlessly different for other mainstream languages

The brittleness of this kind of thing is a real application for LLMs

Could be getting ahead of the next iPhone announcement

Indeed. A question we should be asking is what the Swedish government should have done if faced by mass non-compliance

Trouble with that is invoking main and declaring main are too similar. I prefer this:

    let main () =
      printf "hello"
      0

But why not test? If we don't expect compatibility to break, then it will be little extra effort surely?

They use Haskell in any case [0]

[0] https://jacobin.com/2022/05/jacobin-is-looking-for-a-program...