On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Richard Newman wrote:
> One reason for it not catching on is probably that anyone who's > learned enough Lisp to implement it has become comfortable enough with > parens to not use it. The same applies for the newbie who decides to > learn enough to start implementing... > > The same goes for infix (particularly infix math). There are a bunch > of implementations out there, none of which see much use. I side with the Lisp curmudgeon sect but would like to point out a few exceptions to the rule. First, the language Dylan, which started out with Lisp syntax but later on they decided to switch from S-exps to M-exps (so to speak) for marketing purposes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)#Syntax SRFI 49 brings this feature to Scheme: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html I don't know how widely supported SRFI 49 is by various Scheme implementations or how many programmers actually program with it. I suspect "not much" and "very few." — Daniel Lyons --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
