Sweet expressions are a bridge too far IMHO. I would be perfectly content with merely getting rid of those dangling ))))) thanks to simple parentheses insertion

Sweet expressions are a bridge too far IMHO. I would be perfectly content with merely getting rid of those dangling ))))) thanks to simple parentheses insertion† based on a single very simple indent/dedent rule: > if the next line is indented, anything from the beginning of the current line starting at the indent till a dedent matching the current line indent is wrapped in one set of parentheses. Seriously, what about this? defmacro deftag [name] list 'defn name ['& 'inner] list 'str "<" (str name) ">" '(apply str inner) "</" (str name) ">" deftag html deftag body deftag h1 deftag p Now what about the DSL that now downright looks like slim-lang?: html body h1 "Hello World" p "How's it going?" Or look at that: defn qsort [coll] if (empty? coll) coll let [pivot (first coll) remainder (rest coll)] concat (qsort (filter (partial > pivot) remainder)) [pivot] (qsort (filter (partial <= pivot) remainder)) (even the qsort ones could be removed, but they balance [pivot] somehow) I'm perfectly happy with writing (+ 1 2 3) or whatever, the only parentheses that bother me are those that are perfectly delineated by indentation already, just as newlines perform the same duty as semicolons. They're just duplicated noise††. † Other languages perform similar semicolon insertion, with varying degrees of success and ambiguities (JS==terrible, Go==terrific). †† I know, you're supposed to get used to it and "unsee" them. I know, "paredit!". But seriously if you have to write a tool solely to produce noise, and you have to get accustomed to ignore said noise, well, somehow, something's off.