From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-07T15:51:58+09:00
Subject: Re: the perens in lisp dilects is there for a reson... macros.

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:55:05PM +0900, Neumann wrote:
> There's a discussion related to this going on over at Lambda the
> Ultimate that you might enjoy:
> http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1646

While I know a fair bit about Lisp dialects such as CLisp and Scheme, I
don't actually know the languages per se.  As such, I find it difficult
to be certain I'm not missing something.  Judging by what I do know,
though, it seems likely to me that the way UCBLogo handles the
parentheses "problem" is pretty damned optimal: you don't need
parentheses because expressions have default lengths (which default can
be circumvented by adding the parentheses back in).

I'm not about to go joining a Lisp mailing list to make that statement
without knowing more about "proper" Lisps, however.  Of course.

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