unicode as valid naming symbols

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Tue Apr 1 05:32:53 EDT 2014


Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Antoon Pardon
>> Which will give me the normal result. Maybe I missed it but I haven't
>> heard scheme being called an unreadable language.
>
> Well, I have, but I think that usually has more to do with an excess
> of parentheses.

If you count braces as parentheses, there are about the same number of
parentheses in scheme and C:

    int main()
    {
        printf("Hello world\n");
        return 0;
    }

    (define (main)
        (format #t "Hello world\n")
        0)

C: 6
Scheme: 6


Marko



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