English-like Python

[Erik Max Francis]

Joe Strout wrote:

> Aaron Brady wrote:
> 
>> I think it would be a good step if you could make some sensible
>> interpretation of a typical statement without its parentheses.
>>
>> f "abc" 123
>> -->
>> f( "abc", 123 )
>>
>> It would be just the thing in a couple of situations...
> 
> Such a language is possible -- take a look at REALbasic sometime.  RB 
> certainly has its problems (mainly bugs), but the language syntax is 
> beautiful.  To your point, parentheses are not required around any 
> method call that (1) has no return value, or (2) requires no parameters. 

Logo, of all things, doesn't require parentheses at all, since functions 
("procedures") take a fixed number of arguments.  Parentheses are only 
required when you're adding optional arguments.

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