Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell

Re:Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell by convolvatron on Monday May 13, 2019 @10:29AM (#19899566)

I have a project that uses free unparsed text with evaluated sexpressions mixed in. I understand that alot of people just dont like sexpressions...but otherwise is anyone really bothered by this style of allowing arbitrary junk at the top level?

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Re:Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell by ljm on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:20PM (#19902162)

I think it’s fine, it’s like you’re saying that every expression is implicitly wrapped in a ‘()’ itself, so the syntax is redundant at the top level in a shell.

Not sure I’d appreciate it outside of a shell.

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Re:Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell by andrewchambers on Monday May 13, 2019 @05:14PM (#19904026)

Yeah, the shell implicitly adds () in janetsh, but it doesn't do it for you when you are writing scripts.

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