Re:I Miss Lisp
by oconnore on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:27PM
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Macros.
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Re:I Miss Lisp
by adambyrtek on Sunday December 12, 2010 @03:51PM
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What about them?
cageface missed the major reason why Lisp in general is powerful: prefix notation is really the only clean way to implement macros.
The rest is just icing on the cake.
S-exprs == macros
Those two things are not equivalent at all. I don't think you understand what you are talking about.
S-expressions define a class of syntax styles. By themselves, they have no semantic characteristics at all. Macro's are a way in which the compiler rewrites the syntax tree based on user programs. Do you see the difference?