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There are plenty of ways to represent a Lisp parse tree without using parens. The only thing is, by the time you know Lisp well enough to implement one, you've
by brlewis 19y ago
There are plenty of ways to represent a Lisp parse tree without using parens. The only thing is, by the time you know Lisp well enough to implement one, you've begun to like the parens.
- michaelneale 19y agoTotally true. Plus you can have editors "present" the lisp tree however you like to see it (ie "whitespace" or parens !). Although I practice, I don't know if anyone really writes code without the parens (for the reason you say).