On Dec 11, 9:32 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I don't know whether Rich regards the text of a Clojure program as the
> source, or whether he thinks of the source as the data structure
> created by the reader when it reads the text. In Common Lisp and some
> older dialects, it's pretty clear that the latter is the case.

I think Clojure, by avoiding reader macros and reader side-effects,
actually comes closer to the code-is-data ideal than Common Lisp
does.  It might not lure me away from Emacs, but it would be
interesting to see an editor that goes all the way and abandons text
sources altogether.

-Stuart Sierra
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