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Re:Can a language have Lisp's powerful macros without the pa... by BrandonM on Thursday April 05, 2007 @10:50AM (#9201)
I agree, thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I find the complete lack of syntax to make it even harder to read than Lisp macros (which I don't personally find difficult, but some do). Additionally, having to use numbers to indicate operator precedence seems a bit strange. Of course, Lisp solves this by always using parentheses, but I would be curious to see if there is a more elegant way of handling this than the numeric approach (or even the approach suggested in their proposed changes to Logix).
Re:Can a language have Lisp's powerful macros without the pa... by raju on Thursday April 05, 2007 @06:49PM (#9437)
I agree with you. The lack of parentheses makes that hard to read. I am trying to get head wrapped around lisp (maybe thats it, I am _looking_ for the parentheses :)).