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I tend to write with an excessive amount of parenthesis with context/tangents. I used to joke it was due to Lisp/Scheme being one of my first languages. Took me
by mrexroad 4y ago
I tend to write with an excessive amount of parenthesis with context/tangents. I used to joke it was due to Lisp/Scheme being one of my first languages. Took me a few years to realize the ADD connection.
- mnky9800n 4y agoI do this to get it out, then I rewrite it to take all the parentheticals out.
- sph 4y agoThose parentheticals can be rewritten with commas, which sent me on an exploratory tangent trying to see if one could use commas instead of parens in Lisp.
- pasquinelli 4y agoyou also have dashes for parenthesis.
- spicybright 4y agoThat's interesting. What did you find?
- sph 4y agoLike a sibling commenter said, commas are not enough to be unambiguous. Ambiguity is fine in prose, because we can resolve it from context, but computers need something clear and well structured.
- KMag 4y agoBut several layers of parentheticals delimited by commas are ambiguous to parse in the general case.
- thenoblesunfish 4y agoMe too - I try to avoid parentheticals in polished writing because they're usually there to avoid having to decide if something is really important. If it's not important, take it out (or if it's a very technical detail that can be skipped on first reading, maybe put it in a footnote (uhoh, I'm doing it)).
- alx__ 4y agoSo the venn diagram of ADD(ADHD is the preferred term these day) folks and Lisp(Scheme if you're fancy) programmers is a circle?
- emmelaich 4y agoLinus overuses parentheses. Or rather, parenthetical remarks. It's interesting.
- petre 4y agoIt still needs Yoda speak to qualify as lisp.