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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by masukomi on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:40AM (#24896027)
There's a curly-brackets based infix formatting you could use if you'd prefer.

https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-105/

Or, you could use T-Expressions if Python style whitespace indentations to represent code nesting is easier on your brain.

https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-110/srfi-110.html

Scheme and Lisp are VERRRRY Flexible.

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Re:An Intuition for Lisp Syntax by athenot on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:35AM (#24897295)
Thank you! I'm in the camp of "Curious about Lisp but never jumped into it" and was wondering if indentation could reduce some of the bracket-noise.

This is VERY elegant!

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