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0 pointsufo11y ago0 comments

Doesnt need to be an expression language for that. Algol and Pascal had nested procedures and lexical scope but still had traditionla imperative statements.

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MichaelGG11y ago

I meant I want both features. I want to be able to write "let x = if a then y else z", and I also want to nest things.

But if everything is an expression, then nesting seems to arise naturally.

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