Proposed syntax of compiled stack-based language

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% A comment starts with '%'

123 -42 0 0xffff 0xDEAD 0b111101        % Numeric literals
"Hello, World!\r\n\t"                   % String literals
true false                              % Boolean literals
[ 2 3 4 ]                               % List of integers

printf + * / - on?                      % Names
->                                      % Naming operator
<-                                      % Non-executing value-of operator

42 -> meaning-of-life                   % Name the value '42' 'meaning-of-life'
meaning-of-life                         % Dereference 'meaning-of-life' (executes it if a function)
<- meaning-of-life                      % Dereference 'meaning-of-life' (does not execute it if a function)

{ ... }                                 % Function literal

{ 1 + } -> +1                           % Create a function which takes one argument and adds 1, name
                                        % it +1

2 +1 .                                  % Push 2 on stack, call +1 (leaving 3 on the stack), call '.'

{                                       % Make a new function
  ->a ->b                               % Pop and name 'a' and 'b'
  a b +                                 % Compute and push a+b
} ->f                                   % Name the function f