Re: When is Xah going to ease up on Emacs...

#1 08-25-2008, 06:33 AM

Xah wrote:
«
Fundamental Problems of Lisp
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/w..._problems.html
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Frank Buss wrote:
> Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious." Lispnik: "Buddha is big,
> has hairy armpits, and laughs." —Nikodemus Siivola
>
> If it is useful, why using a more consistent, but more annoying notation?

ultimately, you have to ask why lisper advocate nested syntax in the
first place.

if lispers love the nested syntax, then, the argument that there
should not be irregularities, has merit. If lispers think occational
irregularities of sugar syntax is good, then there's the question of
how many, or what form. You might as well introduce “i++” for “(setq i
(1+ i))”.

PS this post is posted to comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.functional .

Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄

#2 08-25-2008, 06:56 AM

> (defmacro q (&rest args)
(list 'quote args))
Q

> (q a b c)
(A B C)

Why on earth you can't just do this kind of thing yourself is beyond
me.

Use the code. Be happy(er).

#3 08-25-2008, 06:59 AM

Realising you might throw an exception to the really ugly syntax of my
code, I felt I should post a fix:

(defmacro q (&rest args)
(list (quote quote) args))

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