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Rubysyn: Clarifying Ruby's Syntax and Semantics

69 points • by petalmind • last Wednesday at 9:54 AM • 16 comments • view on HN

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Smalltalker-80 • today at 8:34 AM

I prefer the postcard ;-) https://richardeng.medium.com/syntax-on-a-post-card-cb6d85fa...

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SeriousM • today at 8:41 AM

> This is an experiment in clarifying some aspects of Ruby syntax and semantics. For that we're going to introduce an alternative Lisp-based syntax for Ruby, preserving Ruby semantics.

Lisp? Then I would use Lisp...

> The goal is to define a comprehensive, trivially-parsable and sugar-free syntax.

Ruby has syntax sugar, no need to remove the funny parts.

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