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hmm... c = sqrt(a*a + b*b) (setf c (sqrt (+ (* a a) (* b b))))

• thoth 12y ago
  Amusing... but to be fair, this is also an operator precedence issue where C is letting you drop several pairs.
  • GregBuchholz 12y ago
    >where C ...I think operator precedence allows the removal of the parenthesis for at least: Ada, C, C++, D, Dylan, Erlang, Fortran, Go, Haskell, Icon, Java, Javascript, Julia, Lua, Mathematica, OCaml, Pascal, Perl, Prolog, Python, QBasic, R, Ruby, Scala, and TCL.
  • kazagistar 12y ago
    I don't see how that is supposed to be a valid excuse. Non-lisps tend to support operator precedence, reducing the number of parens significantly. Thus, the argument "other languages require the same number of parens" is completely false.