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Re:Ante: A low-level functional language by strbean on Friday June 17, 2022 @01:59PM (#31781917)
Regarding single-line only lambdas, I think that isn't an intractable issue with the grammar.

Guido van Rossum basically said parsing them is hard, and he doesn't like lambdas in the first place, so it won't happen. [0]

Similar to "tail call optimization encourages dirty FP nerds" logic. Terrible decisions IMHO.

[0]: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358

Re:Ante: A low-level functional language by jfecher on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:18PM (#31783003)
Agreed. Other whitespace sensitive languages like Haskell, F#, and Ante handle multiline lambdas just fine