News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Carp: A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.

Re:Carp: A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-tim... by Koshkin on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:10PM (#16831335)
> (defn

What's wrong with "def"?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Carp: A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-tim... by jetrink on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:12PM (#16831364)
At least in Clojure, (defn my-function [] ...) is syntactic sugar for (def my-function (fn [] ...)), removing one level of nesting.
[ Parent | on HN ]