All I want for Christmas

Very interesting ideas!

I’m not sure there is much advantage in this first section over just using the test1 variable, which already holds a list. It certainly would avoid many enlist calls, but that’s about it.


But these sections ar much more interesting. They add a lot of new convenience.


I’m not sure this is worth the additional syntactic sugar, given that I would expect this to do the same:

<$let test5={{{ [range[1],[50]first[10]let[v...]] }}}>  ->  v.1 .. v.10 
<!--                          ^^^^^^^^^                -->

I can’t tell how much I would use this. I guess it would make sense when the list is a tuple in disguise.


So overall, some very nice ideas.

However, I think it may be a little late. I assume that the following is planned for 5.4.0:

Introducing Multi-valued Variables

It is syntactically very different but seems to cover much of the same ground as this proposal.