David A. Wheeler wrote: > Alan Manuel Gloria: >> As an aside, at the office we are using a Lisplike with an infix >> notation, however I tend to avoid the infix notation except at repl. > > What is "repl."?
Read-Eval-Print Loop? Ha ha! I'm not a Lisper and I got that one! Props to meee! (Sorry David.) >> For coding, I use Lisp syntax almost completely, especially after I >> finally "got" macros. > > Well, that's the problem with infix implemented as macros - they work unless > you have complex macros, then they sometimes don't work. Yuk. I think in > most cases the reader-based approach has serious advantages, simply because > it's simple and ALWAYS works. A little off-topic, seeking to understand Lisp macros a little better: do complex macros tend to not compose well because they're expanded preorder rather than evaluation order (postorder)? Neil ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
