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fault1 on Dec 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: I can read C++ and Java but I can’t read Smalltalk...

julia can do things sort of like this because it has juxtaposition = 'implicit multiplication'

julia's parser (which is written in scheme!): https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia-par...

mananaysiempre on Dec 18, 2021 [–]

Similarly, TeX bakes units into its syntax, but METAFONT (which is much more pleasant as a programming language in general) just has a production for <numeric token> <numeric variable> instead (yes, it has a very involved context-dependent grammar), though it gives up type checking because of that.

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