On 11/26/05, Henri Morlaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > Am I the only one who find the lispy backquote macros better than the > COMPOSE function ? > > for example: > `[ ,value1 to-string ( to-integer ,value2 ) + 2 ) ] > instead of: > compose/deep [ (value1) to-string (to-paren reduce[ to-paren reduce [ > 'to-integer (value2) ] + 2 ] ] > > Why is it so ?
Because you used an artificial example? Parens *are* the backquotes of rebol. What happens if you want to backquote backquotes in lisp? (I admit in some cases, like composing parse-rules, your example makes sens= e.). > -- > henri > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > > -- -Volker "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem." David Wheeler -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
