Comments (8)
Looks like in the most recent janet (11d7af3), the dotup
bit is this line.
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(discussed before) this very footgun-ish maybe we make ()
invalid instead of empty list
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Are you confident that that will have minimal to no effect on existing code?
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the inconsistency that () is not a "function call"
I think it depends on how one defines things.
There is at least one other Lisp-like that has a similar arrangement:
An empty list () evaluates to an empty list.
Non-empty Lists are considered calls to either special forms, macros, or functions. A call has the form (operator operands*).
via: https://clojure.org/reference/evaluation
By this definition, ()
isn't a call and at least when looking directly at such a definition, there doesn't appear to be an outright inconsistency to me.
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I don't suppose an appropriate fix is as simple as:
diff --git a/src/boot/boot.janet b/src/boot/boot.janet
index 9c5a2bd9..354f0f14 100644
--- a/src/boot/boot.janet
+++ b/src/boot/boot.janet
@@ -2141,7 +2141,9 @@
(case (type x)
:tuple (if (= (tuple/type x) :brackets)
(tuple/brackets ;(map recur x))
- (dotup x))
+ (if (next x)
+ (dotup x)
+ ()))
:array (map recur x)
:struct (table/to-struct (dotable x recur))
:table (dotable x recur)
$ ./build/janet
Janet 1.32.1-11d7af3f linux/x64/gcc - '(doc)' for help
repl:1:> (macex '(if true () ()))
(if true () ())
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Something like that, I wanted to propose. :-).
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Are you confident that that will have minimal to no effect on existing code?
very not confident
the thing is, the inconsistency that ()
is not a "function call" will probably end up being discovered again.
there's a way to add warnings to bare ()
(suggest to switch to []
)
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It's inconsistent because without any prior knowledge to lisp-like languages, one would deduct ()
(a)
(a b)
(a b c)
to behave similarly. That's also the simplest way to write code to handle lispy expressions. In this case (macex) the inconsistency caused the mistake to happen.
People by default don't know, so I argue to make a language self-consistent rather than follow convention (requires knowledge).
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