Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

Pascal Bourguignon spam at thalassa.informatimago.com
Wed Oct 8 13:39:30 EDT 2003


tfb at famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick) writes:
>   (defconstant -> '-> "More sugar")
> 
>   ;; Example usage
>   (convert *thing* -> (class-of *other-thing*))
> 
> Of course, these are lame examples, but they show that Lisp *can*
> incorporate little ascii-picture-symbols.  Good examples would
> necessarily be very domain-dependant.

Have a look ad DrScheme. There,  you can use real images (gif, jgp) as
values. It  should not be  too difficult to  use them as  symbol names
too...

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