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In exchange for parens, you never ever have to worry about any _other_ syntax though. I always find this argument baffling. Every new version of most languages,
by thom 7y ago
In exchange for parens, you never ever have to worry about any _other_ syntax though. I always find this argument baffling. Every new version of most languages, there's new syntax to learn. New arrangements of keywords and glyphs to do stuff that is always and forever going to be (new-thing ...) in a lisp.
- smabie 7y agoThe loop CL macro would like to have a word with you. Moreover, there’s also reader macros that you have to worry about. Macros in general can have whatever syntax the author chooses. No one actually writes lisp code that is truly homoiconic for one simple reason: being constrained to a completely regular syntax is kind of annoying.