From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-02-23T21:48:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> If you specify a language with silly precedence rules, it just gives
> the definitive incentive to put PARENTHESES around each subexpression.

Sure. But why would anyone want to write something like

    a = b + c

when they could just as easily have written

    (set!
       (quote a)
       (+ b c))

instead?

(Note: untested and probably wrong. I have a sneaking suspicion that 
set! may be a special-form and so doesn't require its first argument to 
be quoted. Of course, there is no clue to this in the syntax, or lack of 
it. That's also ignoring any differences between Scheme and LISP)
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