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2026-05-08 18:44 UTC
@wim_v12e@merveilles.town based on my knowledge of the implementation of junctions, I would maybe say that it's not junctions that are syntactic sugar, but function calls (and method calls, and operator calls) are syntactic sugar for "call the thing directly, or call it multiple times as needed to satisfy the junction semantics". though I'm not sure if that's a meaningful difference or not
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@wim_v12e@merveilles.town 2026-05-09 08:42
@timotimo@peoplemaking.games Syntactic sugar are features within a language that can be defined in terms of a language core of essential constructs. I implemented Raku's Junctions in Raku without Junctions, so by definition they are syntactic sugar.