On Feb 1, 3:35 pm, e <evier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This may be obvious to others, but what's the motivation behind it? Is it
> that we are very concerned about combatting the criticism that lisp has too
> many parens?
>
Applying functions in succession without giving a name to each
intermediate value can be very elegant in the right circumstances, and
yet... the order in which the functions must be written and the parens
can really screw it up and make things less clear than they might be.
Incidentally, the parens are actually not specific to Lisp in this
case. Haskell has a $ operator (and others, IIRC) that serves a
similar purpose.
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