On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 3:44 PM David Storrs wrote:
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> If, on the other hand, the dev team is going to specify that TOTS will be
> the Pythonic version and the Lispy version will be relegated to historical
> status, with no promise that there won't be breaking changes in the
> future...well,
This feels a bit dismissive of people's concerns. Yes, the toy examples
you give are non-controversial in their changes. That's not the case once
you start scaling up to even slightly more realistic code. For example:
(and a (or b c d) e (if x g f))
a and b or c or d and e and if x g f
Those
This is getting out of hand. There is a lot of misinformation swirling
around, sparking a lot of unnecessary panic and misunderstanding.
Changing surface syntax, even for something as invasive as infix notation,
is not synonymous with abandoning s-expressions.
Let me repeat this, for emphasis:
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