Show HN: Heresy, a BASIC-inspired functional Lisp

Re:Show HN: Heresy, a BASIC-inspired functional Lisp by gus_massa on Sunday November 16, 2014 @11:14AM (#8614532)

Have you tried to use keywords instead of normal symbols in the forms?

For example, instead of

  (if *test* then *do1* else *do2*)

define it to use

  (if *test* #:then *do1* #:else *do2*)

[Disclaimer: I still use VB6 from time to time.]

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Re:Show HN: Heresy, a BASIC-inspired functional Lisp by jarcane on Sunday November 16, 2014 @11:19AM (#8614546)

I didn't really think about it. Doing them as literals felt more idiomatic to classic BASIC, and it was easy to implement (initially) with syntax-rules.

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