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If 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?

by alec 16y ago

If 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?"

jimbokun 16y ago
The answer: You end up with seemingly arbitrary limitations like single line lambdas, just like Python.
- rntz 16y ago
  False. The I-expression: lambda (x y) display x + x y corresponds to the S-expression: (lambda (x y) (display x) (+ x y))