From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: How is Lisp "better"? Date: 1998/08/13 Message-ID: <3111992645986061@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 381090954 References: <359a3ce4.2803606@nntp6.mindspring.com> <6pkk46$755$1@usenet42.supernews.com> <35D2AED0.5F4@sncf.fr> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.x,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme * Jacques Duthen | I think the lisp syntax Blake refers to is: | | left parenthesis | function name | arguments | right parenthesis | | which applies to any instruction, whether it's a variable declaration, a | function definition, an addition, etc. and the same syntax also applies | recursively to the arguments. but this is _obviously_ false. why do people believe such nonsense? #:Erik -- http://www.naggum.no/spam.html is about my spam protection scheme and how to guarantee that you reach me. in brief: if you reply to a news article of mine, be sure to include an In-Reply-To or References header with the message-ID of that message in it. otherwise, you need to read that page.