News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Not Lisp again (2009).

Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by DNied on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:14PM (#26298755)
The syntax of those defines sure looks weird. In what dialect does the name of the function being defined appear as the CAR of a list, followed by the parameters?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by rvense on Monday March 01, 2021 @04:34AM (#26301045)
In Scheme,

    (define (foo bar) ...)
is equivalent to

    (define foo (lambda (bar) ...))
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Not Lisp again (2009) by mschaef on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:15PM (#26298761)
Scheme
[ Parent | on HN ]