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7 Sep 2024 05:10:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Haskell humour  
From: nemesis
Date: 1 Oct 2008 16:17:16
Message: <48e3dacc$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Not at all.  Prefix syntax makes everything very clear:  most 
>> everything in the begining of a list is a function or macro and the 
>> rest are arguments, like
>> (+ 1 i) or ((lambda (x) (* x x)) 3)
> 
> I'm having trouble seeing which thing a given subexpression is the 
> argument to. To do that, you have to count brackets. It's not 
> impossible, just not very easy.

Lispers just forget the parentheses and look at the indented code. 
Parentheses are only important for macros and structured editing.


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