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betaveros

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    Comment #33991247

    I'm the author but not the OP. Thanks! I'm not sure I follow the question about infix notation and precedence, but: Trains of identifiers like `a b c d e f g` are always parsed as …

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    Comment #33991078

    This language isn't an attempt to solve Python's problems. At best it's an attempt to get around some minor speed bumps I personally experience when writing short Python scripts. I…

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    Comment #33990910

    I like this idea. I think I've considered adding immutable variables, but haven't prioritized them because other things I wanted to work on have a better expressiveness or bug-catc…

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    Comment #33990753

    Author here. FWIW I 100% agree with your assessment. This would be a horrible choice for anything resembling production code and I hope nobody considers it. I'm not really even sur…

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    Comment #33989330

    Hi, author here. I'll probably go into this in more detail in a blog post later, but the short reason for runtime precedences (briefly discussed much further down in the README) is…

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    Comment #13511151

    Looks like it was done twice in 2010 ( https://www.go-hero.net/jam/10/languages/Piet ) and once in 2015 (by me!) ( https://www.go-hero.net/jam/15/languages/Piet ) I sorta cheated w…

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    Comment #11051231

    For the lulz, I turned your code into one line with lambdas: https://gist.github.com/betaveros/1e76b3ca53001c8edcef It takes quite a few more characters, but it was fun.

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    Comment #8676364

    There was a Google Code Jam problem this year precisely about detecting the difference between the fair shuffle and the "terribly, terribly wrong" shuffle: https://code.google.com/…