> Maybe start with lisp and just add {key: value key2: value2} syntax for tables? It'd be useful to get ruby-style keyword args for free, at least. This is how

> Maybe start with lisp and just add {key: value key2: value2} syntax for tables? It'd be useful to get ruby-style keyword args for free, at least. This is how Clojure hacks around keyword args, and altho destructuring kind of makes up for it, it's not that pretty. (It's not pretty in Ruby either) Hash table literals are a nice addition to Lisp but I think it's kind of ugly to use them for keyword args.