PEP0238 lament

[Terry Reedy]

"Paul Foley" <see at below> wrote in message
news:m2y9pc5ljc.fsf at mycroft.actrix.gen.nz...
> Yes, that's pretty much what I was getting at.  Lisp isn't text
> containing parentheses, it's lists or trees of objects, which has no
> parentheses (unless you have some reason to want to represent a
> parenthesis-object in your code; e.g., as a character).  The printed
> representation of
>
>            a
>           / \
>          b   c
>
> as (a b c) is just an easier-to-deal-with form of "marshal" output.

Has anyone writen an environment that uses the 'proper' 2-D,
unmarshalled tree form?  I think I might prefer such.

> Nothing says you have to use that particular print representation,
> though everybody does

who can tolerate the flattened form.

Terry J. Reedy