From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2009-02-24T05:32:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Eleanor McHugh wrote: > Imagine how sweet Lisp would be without > all those damn parentheses: The parentheses are in Lisp because functions (and special forms) have variable arity. If they had fixed arity the parentheses would not be required. But since S-expressions were defined using parentheses and Lisp wanted programs to look like S-expressions, variable arity was thrown in as a bonus. :) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.