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Exactly. Totally baffled by the supposed popular reaction to parens. (However I use IDEs that match and color parens so maybe then didn't have such in the olden
by wellpast 4y ago
Exactly. Totally baffled by the supposed popular reaction to parens. (However I use IDEs that match and color parens so maybe then didn't have such in the olden days referenced here.)
Not having S-expressions is weird. Not being able to drop my cursor anywhere and with a few keystrokes to expand my selection "grab" a referentially transparent value expression and just relocate it or move it or evaluate in the REPL. What are all these other PLs and programmers even doing?
- gumby 4y agoA lot of languages pointlessly make a distinction between a statement and an expression. I can’t imagine why anyone would want that.
- sph 4y agoIt's one of the things I love the most in Rust, and was previously just seen in functional languages. Even scripting languages like Python feel clunkier than Rust due to the unnecessary statement/expression distinction.