[e-lang] Naming convention for variable holding an eventual reference

[Karp, Alan H]

David Wagner wrote:
>
> This variant doesn't provide a naming convention on the variables
> themselves, only a special syntax at the place where those variables
> are used -- just like your proposal.  The only advantage of this
> variant over your proposal is that this variant avoids the inversion.
>
I don't have any problem with the inversion.  Programmers are used to seeing code evaluated from the innermost nested parens out.

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