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protomyth
The posts are mostly from Dec 2010 with one follow-up in Apr 2011. I wonder if there was any follow-up?
devin
While I think it's interesting that you can do this, it doesn't mean you should. Yikes.
[dead] HockeyBiasDotCo
Nothing like using a vintage 1988 syntax in 2011...
chrisaycock
The name is confusing. I thought this would have been an Objective-C version of OpenCL.
andrewcooke
argh. please don't do this. not because lisp is sacronsanct, but because a better thought-out (consistent, transparent, inter-operable with macros) approach already exists - http://www.dwheeler.com/readable

really, there's a long history here. people have worked out the details. it just needs implementing...

5hoom
More power to the guy for doing something interesting, but I can't help but think this would be weird, painful & impractical to use. Still, why not?
p4bl0
I thought this was interesting mainly to show the power of Common Lisp reader-macros. It's awesome to be able to do this, and someone has to do it, because we can. But it doesn't mean it should be used for real.