From: Patrick May <pjm@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T02:55:00+09:00
Subject: Re: assert{ 2.0 } - a new kind of assertion

Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> writes:
>>      You mean like you can easily do in Common Lisp:
>
> Already pointed out on another forum.
>
>> Ha, ha, only serious,
>
> I'll stick with the language where every parenthesis pair is
> optional, thanks.

     Parentheses?  What parentheses?  ;-)

     In practice parentheses are the anti-fnords -- fairly quickly you
start to _not_ see them.  They do make macros (real macros, not those
C-family search-and-replace abominations) straightforward, though.
Definitely worth the effort.

     Nice Ruby hack, by the way.

Regards,

Patrick

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