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It certainly can be a delimiter, and indeed is often how we delimit sequences in normal language texts.

I've been experimenting with how this type of syntax could be used to transcribe Lisps, following on from the like of 'Wisp'. The results are fairly interesting, in my opinion, though I've mostly been fiddling with the feeling of writing and reading so far, rather than actually settling on a syntactic combination that's coherent. I'm using bullets rather than numbered lists, since sequence is basically always implied in code context.

https://gist.github.com/armstnp/bb2a88bcb053d2195f42c60a0cf1...

https://gist.github.com/armstnp/3fab1a0933c0da273525f77799de...



Oh that first example is really interesting! I wouldn't have thought to use bullet points in source code, but it gives it sort of a "document" feel.




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