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Date: | 2005-02-14 (14:20) |
From: | Stefan Monnier <monnier@i...> |
Subject: | Re: The boon of static type checking |
> But S-expressions are arguably the best syntax for writing macro > expansions. Since an S-expression is trivially parseable and dispatches on That's exactly where syntax is important: depending on your syntax some things are easy/concise and others aren't, so people end up adapting a very different programming style. It doesn't mean that one syntax is intrinsically better than another, but just that syntax does matter. Stefan