Show HN: Heresy, a BASIC-inspired functional Lisp

Re:Show HN: Heresy, a BASIC-inspired functional Lisp by Tloewald on Sunday November 16, 2014 @12:18PM (#8614730)

If you could elimiate the outermost braces and have a line continuation character you might get something even less intimidating.

In other words anything between two auccessive non escaped line endings is treated as being parenthesized. Suddenly you can write lisp without parens everywhere.

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Re:Show HN: Heresy, a BASIC-inspired functional Lisp by axblount on Sunday November 16, 2014 @04:46PM (#8615565)

There's an SRFI that outlines an indentation based Scheme syntax called Sweet-expressions. It also adds infix operations.

http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html

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Re:Show HN: Heresy, a BASIC-inspired functional Lisp by jarcane on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:12PM (#8620227)

Interesting, turns out there is a version of this for Racket: https://github.com/takikawa/sweet-racket

I will have to take a gander and see if it's compatible.

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Re:Show HN: Heresy, a BASIC-inspired functional Lisp by jarcane on Sunday November 16, 2014 @12:34PM (#8614789)

It's an interesting idea. I'd have to study up a lot more on how to do reader macroing in Racket. Mostly I was more focused on terminology (going forward my naming policy will be to favor BASIC names over Lisp ones, same reason why print is display in Heresy), and on providing a kind of 'nutrasweet' Lisp rather than a full blown functional BASIC dialect (which is as yet beyond my skills with the language).

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Re:Show HN: Heresy, a BASIC-inspired functional Lisp by akkartik on Sunday November 16, 2014 @12:21PM (#8614739)

Like this toy lisp of mine: http://akkartik.name/post/wart

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