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Re:Differences with other Lisps by Zababa on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:14AM (#29092762)
> a waste of 1/3 of the matching pair symbols

I count 5, (), [], {}, <> and /\ though the last one is a bit of a stretch (but it's reversible: \/). Am I missing something? Did you mean "1/3 of the matching pair symbols left" as () is already used? Or is <> not usable?

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Re:Differences with other Lisps by bjoli on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:18PM (#29101790)
There are functions starting with < and > so that's no good. And / and \ are already used elsewhere.
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