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2 points by almkglor 5840 days ago | link | parent

Actually the point of messing with the existing 'with / 'withs is to force the programmer to consider using the new form of 'let. ^^

The problem of using a code-tree walker is: you lose the comments, which are arguably about 50% the value of the code.



1 point by absz 5840 days ago | link

Right, comments. Just a little important, aren't they? :P

You raise a good point... it's the same number of parentheses either way. But in that case, why not just have let and lets (as given(s)), and be done with it?

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3 points by almkglor 5840 days ago | link

> let and lets (as given(s))

Done and on the git ^^

Edit: as an aside, given that pg has said that he'll modify Arc as if there's nobody else programming in it, and that he does not appear to be using Anarki, eventually when Arc3 does come around, it is very possible that Anarki will be incompatible with Arc3. We may very well need to build a converter program in the future to transform Arc2-base Anarki to Arc3-base Anarki, so my abstract nonsense may very well be necessary in the future.

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1 point by absz 5840 days ago | link

Thanks!

And general abstract nonsense is almost always a good thing... still, that is worrisome.

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