alt Hacker NewsNow that the native ocaml repl has landed, can't we just slap a s-expression syntax on top of ocaml and call it a day? We would have homoiconicity and the macros that go with it, and still could call "(compile `some-code)". Isn't that enough?
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Aside from the fact that slapping an s-expression syntax on top of a language typically leaves you with a fairly crappy Lisp, that would also lack the excellent Common Lisp interop that Coalton has.
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> native ocaml repl has landed
What does this refer to? Most people use the OCaml `utop` REPL which isn't okay for some printf debugging but nowhere near what a Lisp could do.
I'd love that. The janky OCaml syntax is my least favorite part of the language.