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Re:Typing Nix by regnat on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:35AM (#14619426)
The only place where I think we could make the semicolons optional is at the end of a let-binding or a record (like json does iirc), which would indeed be a small but blessed change.

For the array litterals, I don't really see which improvements your syntax brings (except suppressing the space-separated list, which conflicts with the syntax for function application). Is it used somewhere else ?

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Re:Typing Nix by atemerev on Friday June 23, 2017 @11:21AM (#14619778)
(I can't reply to the previous message regarding no-semicolon syntax, so I have to do it here. I definitely do not want to propose whitespace-sensitive syntax — just newline-sensitive, like in Scala, Swift, modern ECMAscript, or just any modern programming language with C-like syntax. Semicolons are allowed, BTW — they are just optional and inferred from newlines).
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Re:Typing Nix by atemerev on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:55AM (#14619617)
Here is the example where I just removed every semicolon.

https://gist.github.com/atemerev/889806081ed8fcb77495666fac9...

For me, it looks infinitely better.

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