An old paper on the expressiveness of the programming languages [1] had to add an implicit binary operator into whitespace to make Haskell not be ten times more

An old paper on the expressiveness of the programming languages [1] had to add an implicit binary operator into whitespace to make Haskell not be ten times more expressive than most imperative languages. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2743686_Are_Ours_Really_Smaller_Than_Theirs https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2743686_Are_Ours_Re... So, yes, it can be done and it was done. Yes, expressiveness rises. No, reading comprehension of such languages does not suffer. Yes, it has to have a lot of scaffolding.