Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Pascal Costanza]

Brian Quinlan wrote:

> Rayiner Hashem wrote:
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>>Are equally natural in their respective syntaxes. However, if you have
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> a
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>>short, simple function:
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>>(defun foo (x) (+ x 2))
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>>is still perfectly natural, while:
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>>int foo(int x) { return x + 2; }
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>>looks a little weird. Most people would write the above similarly to
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> the
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>>first example, which makes it much longer. Block-structured languages
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> in
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>>general tend to suffer from this problem.
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> But Python doesn't
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> def foo(x): return x + 2

Now, we have walked into the trap of the specific example. ;)


Pascal