From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc2.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: an (in-this-scope...) special form to avoid excessive nesting in source code References: <9q0d9t$t50@dispatch.concentric.net> <3BC6094B.5962B4BA@yale.edu> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3211884571335687@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:09:45 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1002895785 193.71.66.49 (Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:09:45 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:09:45 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:17703 * jrm@itasoftware.com | You can't omit the semicolons! Everybody *knows* that semicolons are | one of the most important tokens to include in a language (followed | closely by curly braces). Why, a language without semicolons would be | virtually unreadable by a human being. So true! That is why semicolons should be used for comments that are _only_ readable by human beings. But so much code in other languages have all these lines with empty comments, as if saying "no comment" to all the pressing questions of why the code is the way it is. /// -- My hero, George W. Bush, has taught me how to deal with people. "Make no mistake", he has said about 2500 times in the past three weeks, and those who make mistakes now feel his infinite wrath, or was that enduring care?