Wisp to new lisp

[fdb]

Hi,
last week I got nerd-sniped when I saw an alternative to the 'parens-heavy' syntax of newlisp, wisp: https://www.draketo.de/software/wisp.

I've seen more alternative lisp syntaxes over the years (f.i. rhombus, shrubbery in Racket) but this is the first time that I can see this a viable alternative so I made a small newlisp module (indent.lsp) which you can download from https://github.com/luxint/wisp-newlisp.


As an example this is wisp syntax:

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define : factorial n
  if : zero? n
    . 1
    * n : factorial : - n 1

which gets then transpiled into:

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(define (factorial n )
  (if (zero? n)
    1
    (* n (factorial (- n 1)))))

Have fun and let me know if you like it!

[cameyo]

Interesting, but I'm fond of parentheses.

[itistoday]

Yeah same here, parenthesis make everything easy to understand for me, I honestly don't get why anyone hates them.

[rrq]

Yes I like parentheses too . I remember Interlisp having square brackets as "meta parentheses" so as to avoid strings of stopping parentheses; the two forms interoperated so that ']' closed all '(' to match prior balancing '[', and likewise ')' closed all '[' to match prior balancing '('.
One could then write for example the following

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(define (factorial n)
    [if (zero? n)
        1
        (* n (factorial (- n 1 ] )Perhaps it's clearer? But the reader has to know the syntax in any case.