Nice article on the Open Dylan 2025.1 release by @theregister : https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/opendylan_20251_released/
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The Register · OpenDylan sheds some parentheses in 2025.1 update
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A new release of the Open Dylan compiler, IDE, and tools is now available for download! It has been a while since we've done a release and this release includes various bug fixes for the compiler, a new multi-line string literal syntax, the Dylan LSP server for emacs and VS Code, and enhancements to Deft, the Open Dylan command-line tool.
See the 2025.1 Release Notes for an overview of what's in this release: https://opendylan.org/release-notes/2025.1.html
opendylan.orgOpen Dylan 2025.1 - Open Dylan
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This will sound like sacrilege for #CommonLisp but in #DylanLang I no longer use plain symbols as a poor-man's enum. Instead I do this:
define constant $rock = #"rock";
define constant $paper = #"paper";
define constant $scissors = #"scissors";
define constant <tool> = one-of($rock, $paper, $scissors);
and then type things as <tool> where appropriate. Et voilà, I can no longer misspell symbol names without getting a compiler warning. More importantly, neither can clients of my library.
EDIT: fix Dylan bugs, add last sentence.
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All the things he talks about macros doing can be done in infix syntax too. #DylanLang for example, since circa 2000. But I will say that _writing_ macros is a lot easier in prefix syntax than infix syntax.
(I have this queued up to read, but have not read it yet: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3622818)
I think that ultimately syntax is a very personal choice. I'm fine with Lisp syntax, but I honestly find Dylan and Python easier to read, precisely _because of_ the variability and no need for lots of parens.
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Rhombus is a new language that is built on Racket. It offers the same
kind of language extensibility as Racket itself, but using traditional
(infix) notation. Although Rhombus is far from the first language to
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