From: Thomas Hafner <thomas@...>
Date: 2009-01-31T22:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: global generator of unique symbols

"David A. Black" <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote/schrieb <Pine.LNX.4.64.0901310705530.7683@rubypal.com>:

> I still don't get the fake Lisp thing. Why write cryptic, unidiomatic,
> turgid Ruby code, when Ruby provides a clean, clear syntax?

Pascal's style seems to reduce errors by syntactical whitespace. These
two pair of lines evaluate to the same result:

  (1
  + 2)
  
  (1 +
  2)

But these two pairs don't:

  1
  + 2
  
  1 +
  2

Regards
  Thomas