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		akavel on Sept 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Urbit: an operating function And then there's Haskell, with it seems to be customary to define new operators extremely often; so much so than I can't cope with the speed trying to invent and memorize how to read them subvocally, unfortunately.

yarvin9 on Sept 25, 2015 [–]

This is one thing we don't do in Hoon -- there are no user-defined macros, operator overloading, etc.

If you're going to put a lot of energy into binding syntax to sound to semantics, you only want to do it once (per language, at least.)

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