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1 point by rocketnia 5039 days ago | link | parent

What makes it ssyntax? The fact that it's not your everyday s-expressions? Isn't that backwards? :-p


1 point by akkartik 5039 days ago | link

"Lark allows functions to be called using the dot operator. For example, instead of length(list) you can use list.length"

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1 point by rocketnia 5039 days ago | link

I'd like to know what makes that ssyntax too. I've heard ssyntax called "symbol syntax"[1] for its low-level details, as well as "special syntax"[2] for, well, reasons I haven't figured out, which is why I ask. :-p

Looking back at "Being Popular" and "Arc at 3 Weeks,"[3] I wonder if pg just used "ssyntax" as an in-code abbreviation for "syntax for s-expressions," in which case that's something lark totally is exploring. But even then, just the term s-expression can mean different things to different people, and I'm curious.

[1] http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12978, http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12151

[2] http://arclanguage.org/item?id=5552, http://arclanguage.org/item?id=15130

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html, http://www.paulgraham.com/arcll1.html

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