refi64

What about a list-concatenation operator? Something like: ``` abc = "my-cmd @(my-var, )"; ``` It would be formatted "@(_variable_,_sep_)".

> In fact, that's the approach I invested some time so far. Out of curiosity, do you have anything publicly available, or was it just more planning / very early...

True, I forgot about Chocolatey. (I maintain the PyPy package... though it's a few versions behind...)

I think part of the general problem is simply that Hy is written in Python. Therefore, *it is physically impossible for Hy's startup to be just as fast as Python's*....

Because it only has an effect on Windows and macOS, which are "icky" proprietary systems...

One thing to note: compile times are pretty slow to begin with, so we'd have to be pretty careful using immutable data structures, and definitely not linked lists.

Hmm so I guess this is sort of a lose-lose scenario, but as a slightly different thought, what if we: - Allow ' inside identifiers (e.g. `x'`). - Disallow @...

IMO Changing `~@` seems like it would be a rather large breaking change for pretty small benefit (though I guess it could partly be done just via sed). I *could*...

Hmm, if no one else is interested I might try tackling this.

I've kind of thought about this for a while as mentioned above since I also do webdev, but design isn't necessarily my strongest suit which makes it more difficult. For...