Alternative syntax for C++, a la Genie for Vala?

Question

The Vala language compiler can handle a very different looking syntax, Genie, which arguably could be considered a different language or an alternative syntax for one language. AFIK, anything you can do in Vala, you can write in Genie (ignoring work-in-progress details, bugs) to the delight of anyone who doesn't like curly brackets.

Is there some language or alternative syntax bearing the same relation to standard C++ that Genie has with Vala? It should allow doing anything that one might do in C++. (It need not be readable by the normal C++ compilers, however - I don't expect that at this point in time.)

(Side issue: Genie/Vala is the only example I can think of now. Are there other examples?)

Medicine

"It should allow doing anything that one might do in C++." You'll need to be more specific than that. Any Turing-complete language can do anything that one might do in C++. – Analemma

C++ is a hard enough language to write a compiler for. Can't imagine anyone writing a compiler that can do all of C++ in addition to another language. – Raddled

For Scheme, SRFI 49 documents an indentation-based syntax, termed I-expressions, that avoids parentheses. – Jonellejones

I'm hoping for some alternative syntax with an explicit "function" keyword, or something, to allow grepping for all methods declarations in a source file. Perhaps more readable type declarations. Perhaps alternatives to curly brackets (thought they're fine by me) or overall easier to parse? – Medicine

@Marcelo: yes, that is the idea. Now where is something that for C++? – Medicine

@user470379: the phrase "semantically isomorphic" from the SPECS paper seems to capture what I mean – Medicine

Answer 1

SPECS

Pointer

direct link: csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProposal.html – Subheading

Exactly the sort of thing I was looking for! – Medicine

The article has been deleted. Are there any other relevant resources? And if so, can you summarize rather than just leaving a bare link that's susceptible to linkrot again? – Regen