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snidane on Jan 21, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Grammars for Programming Languages (2018)

Make the right side of the function call a list or a dict.

  myListOfInts foldLeft (0, +)

or if you make : to be right associative cons function

  myListOfInts foldLeft 0 : +

or using dict

  myListOfInts foldLeft (zero: 0, op: +)

lmm on Jan 22, 2020 [–]

At that point you're introducing significantly more syntax, destroying the nice lisplike properties.

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