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But parenthesis are the only required punctuation. Any of those others you mentioned can be equivalently expressed by parenthetical expressions. Homoiconicity i
by lukev 16y ago
But parenthesis are the only required punctuation. Any of those others you mentioned can be equivalently expressed by parenthetical expressions. Homoiconicity is preserved.
- ekiru 16y agoI don't think that that is true, at least not for Common Lisp. How do you express any of the following constructs using only parentheses and symbols? #:foo #.(foo) #+ FOO (bar) #- FOO (baz) For the original Lisp, parentheses and symbols were all that was necessary. For more recent derivatives, that is not necessarily the case.
- astine 16y agoWell, Packages are a reader-hack, so you couldn't express them with parenthesis, although you should be able to IMHO. #+FOO (bar) This could almost be: (when (member FOO features) (bar)) Just wrap it in an eval-when.