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Re: Reader option to permit brackets as parentheses
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- Subject: Re: Reader option to permit brackets as parentheses
- From: Ingo Hohmann <ingo@2b1.de>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:33:52 +0200
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- Reply-To: Ingo Hohmann <ingo@2b1.de>
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:37:45PM +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote:
> Michael Vanier wrote:
>
> > For that matter, it would be interesting to have a dialect
> > that used indentation as an alternative for parens like
> > python does.
>
<...>
> Sounds like a _very_ bad idea to have code
> meaning depending on whitespace.
<...>
> IMHO the correct way to read lisp is by looking at the indentation.
Please look at these last two sentences. If indentation is needed for
a human to read, why not use it as syntactical way to structure code?
Then you are sure, that the compiler/interpreter understands it the
same way you do.
Ingo Hohmann <ingo@2b1.de>