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Your mention of Python made me wonder if anyone's experimented with an indentation-sensitive syntax for Lisp. It turns out they have. In this Scheme RFI, "I-ex
by teaspoon 16y ago
Your mention of Python made me wonder if anyone's experimented with an indentation-sensitive syntax for Lisp. It turns out they have.
In this Scheme RFI, "I-expressions" can be freely mixed with S-expressions in source:
http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html
This argument for I-expressions touches on many of the same points as the OP; e.g., whether source needs to be readable independently of the editor:
http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/retort-lisp-can-be-readable.html http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/retort-lisp-can-be-readable...
- alec 16y agoIf you watch a Lisp-related mailing list, it seems like once a week someone brings up the topic "hey, what if I replaced the parens with significant whitespace?"