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parenthesis 2125 days ago | link | parent  The . ! syntax is
great.  A possible problem is that I can see myself wanting to
use this syntax a lot for accessing hash tables with symbols as
keys. But ! is a lot more annoying to type than . is.  My
alternative suggestion (which I'm sure has worse problems of its
own) would be    x.y  ->  (x 'y) if y is a symbol, (x y)
otherwise    x,y  ->  (x y)   (by analogy with , inside
backquote)    x!y  ->  (x 'y)  (if there should ever be a need
to quote a non-symbol?) Edit: Also in favour of my proposal, !
looks too much like a letter l:   is very clear.  3 points by
EliAndrewC 2125 days ago | link  . and , are not very visually
distinctive. It'd be like having (x 0) and (x O) both be
commonly used.