syntactic sugar for aref, pref and tref? about extempore HOT 4 CLOSED

Sure, I guess the only issue is that it means that xtlang is less and less lisp-like (although obviously you don't have to use the syntactic sugar).

Do you think the main benefit is code legibility or development efficiency?

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actually I was kinda hoping you'd say that :) I'd really prefer not to do it but I do think it will help code legibility and efficiency. As you say though it does start to put any end to our nice easy macro parsing :)

Maybe we'll just leave this sitting here for a while.

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I think that a more useful (for me in day-to-day, at least) change would be to make the index arg optional, and default to 0.

So (pref data) would be equivalent to (pref data 0)

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I guess if this has sat here for long enough, it's probably not a big deal. Let's close it, and re-open it if it bugs us again.

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