Paul Rubin schrieb:
> Kirk Sluder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Personally, I've always preferred use the imperative to describe
>> basic math rather than the passive. This would seem to map better to
>> RPN than infix.
>
> For writing down complicated, nested expressions too? That's very
> unusual. E.g.
>
> n! = (n/e)**n * sqrt(2*pi*n) * (1 + (1/12n)) * ...
>
> vs. the same thing in Lisp notation, and that's not even so complicated.
As I said earlier: if there are three formulas in your code, then it
doesn't matter too much.
If you write more then use infix in Lisp. It even looks better than Python:
[7x₆ + 9π³ - 6ˣ]
or
(if [√2 ≈ 1,41]
(print "Yay"))
Or mathematical reasoning:
(proof [∃ x∈M ∀ y∈Q : x≤y])
So what?
André
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