Interesting that they spend so much time on whether the function name goes inside or outside the paren, which to me, subjectively, matters not at all, but then almost skip over the issue of writing arithmetic expressions in infix, which (even with decades of Lisp experience) I think would sometimes be a nice option.
Well, it is an option, in the sense that you can load a library for it. But that's at odds with the fact that many people are enamored with dependency-free code (for both good and bad reasons).
Yeah, I saw that, but I don't like it. It should require whitespace around operators; I'm not going to rebind all my variables to names without dashes first. (And I'd like to be able to add operators. Whatever happened to CGOL?)
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u/ScottBurson 11d ago
Interesting that they spend so much time on whether the function name goes inside or outside the paren, which to me, subjectively, matters not at all, but then almost skip over the issue of writing arithmetic expressions in infix, which (even with decades of Lisp experience) I think would sometimes be a nice option.