Not Lisp again (2009)

Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by ASipos on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:06PM (#14248228)

I guess the stuff about parentheses that's highly confusing in Lisp is that x is different from (x). Outside of that, it's just ordinary grouping.

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Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by brlewis on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:59PM (#14248817)

In JavaScript it's confusing that these are different:

  function(x) { return x; }
  function(x) { return x; }()

To reduce confusion, JavaScript programmers follow the Lisp convention and put parens around expressions like the latter. Once you take the 5 minutes needed to get used to the difference between x and (x) it's actually less confusing than popular alternatives.

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