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i wonder if there would be any interest in a lisplike programming language that follows haskell-esque currying function application semantics, e.g. (+ 2) is a function that takes one argument

@typhlosion some of that works so seemlessly in haskell because you can apply functions without using any syntax

@confusedcharlot i have! i have yet to try any scheme flavors where it works, but that's mostly just because i haven't used scheme in a long time)

@confusedcharlot that's a fair point!

however, i think it would still have benefits at least as a toy - i know i've done some FP experiments in Scheme that have felt less elegant than they could because of this problem (and also because of being strict rather than lazy)

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