Re: Re: S-expressions

"Aryeh M. Friedman" <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Aug 2003 15:49:44 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.pragmatic
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>  Ah, thats pretty simple. Its a prefix syntax so the first token inside parans is the 
> function the remaining tokens the arguments. Its pretty simple. 

	Only simple if not deeply nested which s-expressions/mstates require.

> > The lisp/scheme syntax always looked very strange for me because of 
> > the enormous amount of parens. I felt it always hard to match them 
> > and to understand which arguments belonged together, etc. 
>   
>  Your editor should do a pretty good job of matching. As for the arguments this has 
> always seemed really strait forward to me. 

	Simple answer BS.  Complete answer anything that relies on a editor to make
it "right" is flawed by definition.

	--Aryeh

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