Indeed. A workaround would be to introduce some infix operators (there are various lisps that do so), so you could use something like '$' for function applicati

Indeed. A workaround would be to introduce some infix operators (there are various lisps that do so), so you could use something like '$' for function application and end up with a syntax like Haskell. Of course, this is a terrible idea and very un-lispy, because one of the key benefits of lisp is that it's simple to parse. Introducing infix operators destroys that simplicity. Another workaround, which I quite like, is to simply remove all the "lisp syntax" entirely, and edit a tree directly using a syntax directed editor.