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This could easily be designed to avoid superfluous the _ dud in the syntax.

It's like having to use an explicit call operator for everything (call + (call * 2 2) (call * 3 3)). You do that for applicators other than call like map or apply. Call is special, so you don't give it a name; it is named by the absence of a name.

You want the actual operators like ^ and H to be implicitly active. When you want ^ and H to just be the literal characters themselves, that's where some quoting syntax should be applied.




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