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Re:Why Crystal is the most promising programming language of... by singularity2001 on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:23AM (#17319961)
yes, lisp is a fossil of a time before precedence was invented.

what I dream of is a Lisp with an additional mechanism to define precedence of functions/operators. And infix operators. Almost like Haskell.

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Re:Why Crystal is the most promising programming language of... by kazinator on Friday June 15, 2018 @12:26PM (#17321034)
> mechanism to define precedence

Read syntax:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGOL [1973!]

https://www.cliki.net/infix

Macros:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25434538/define-function...

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