Rowan Thorpe <ro...@rowanthorpe.com> writes: > parentheses are not used because as is stated at > https://picolisp.com/wiki/?src64 "Assembly language is not a > functional language, i.e. the individual instructions do not "return" > a value. So a fully parenthesized syntax is useless and just tedious."
because picolisp doesn't have a compiler (program) it is "compiled" to the picolisp assembly manually ahead of time by Alex (human) once you have a compiler (lisp program), parenthesis make sense because they simply show lisp datastructures manipulated by the compiler you can write lisp without parenthesis in similar spirit (see common lisp loop for example) but that is rather "ugly" -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
