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It's not a hatred of parentheses. I use Elisp and Common Lisp all the time, I'm fine with parentheses. If you read the article it's specifically about having l
by chrisdone 14y ago
It's not a hatred of parentheses. I use Elisp and Common Lisp all the time, I'm fine with parentheses.
If you read the article it's specifically about having liberated macros, something you can't have in the presence of parens. You can't write these macros in Lisp:
-- Hello,World! =)
print : Hello, World! :-)
let x = 23/6²*
z/+84
That's "--" and ":" and "=". Those are macros.
Cutting and pasting is easy:
If I copy
foo bar mu
zot bob <-- these two
bil <-- lines
and then I got to here
bar zot bob
dod rob
| <-- with my cursor here and paste
what do you expect to happen?
Whereas here
bar zot bob
dod rob
| <-- with my cursor here and paste
what do you expect to happen?
This is trivial to do in Emacs.