From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-02-20T10:58:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Operator overloading and multiple arguments

In article <3C72EA80.CC71D9E7@mailhost.njit.edu>,
Alexander Schofield  <pcs3@njit.edu> wrote:
>I'll bet you liked playing in traffic as a child ;~).
;-)
No, it was snakes (well it only happened once when I was too young to 
remember so I rely on hearing the anecdote told by my elders) - you 
would'a thought I'd be into Python but I guess I've had enough of playing 
with snakes ;-)

>Just thought I'd let you know about a new Dialect of Lisp called Arc (by
>Paul Graham, author of "ANSI Common Lisp", and "On Lisp").  One of the
>interesting things about this is that in addition to having macros
>similar to CL's, it has a way to define *syntax* as abbreviation for
>S-exps.
>http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html

What are S-Exps?

>Of course, the fact that an implementation doesn't exist yet might
>hinder your investigation.
>

Actually, Ruby is working out quite well for this so far.  I couldn't do 
it without closures (procs), though Lisp has those too (so does Perl, but 
it would look pretty ugly).

Phil