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Take a look an Parinfer https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/. Which essential makes clojure a whitespace language with indent mode.

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Super interesting.

I wonder if the creator has considered just not having parens at all?

I have! I think and so have others:

- http://nonelang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dataformat.html#nak... - http://readable.sourceforge.net/ - https://github.com/boxed/indent-clj

Interesting, I should have been clearer when I said not just no parens, but also just whitespace instead of any syntax characters. The none language uses both () and "". Sweet expressions use {}. And indent-clj uses () and [].

I have had the same thought. I'm guessing, given how long lisp has been around. That the ideas is well research.

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