I've been seeing OpenDylan pass by on /r/lisp and HN the past few months. I've installed it, and it looks nice, but it could use some maturing and I'm not sure what the advantage over other LISPs is. Can someone explain it to me?
We're also having our hack-a-thon this weekend (July 13-14). We're expecting around 15 people to participate on IRC and perhaps a Google hangout.<p>Hopefully we'll be making some good headway on things for our next release (which will include ARM Linux support among other things).
Just out of curiosity, is there a reason for allowing operators in variable names? I've just glanced over the introduction, so if I got something wrong here, sorry. But it seems like this would work?<p><pre><code> let shoe = 5;
let size = 3;
let shoe-size = 10;
shoe-size := shoe-size;
</code></pre>
Now what? Is shoe-size 10 or 2?