> This is why you sometimes hear people saying that Lisp "doesn't have syntax". The other reason is that a language like Common Lisp is defined in terms of the

> This is why you sometimes hear people saying that Lisp "doesn't have syntax". The other reason is that a language like Common Lisp is defined in terms of the data-structures used by the language and the language has no unique text representation: the “default” reader uses a slightly extended version of s-expressions, but any data structure in the language can be evaluated and any transform from text to data structures can be a textual syntax for Common Lisp.