I like begin and end instead of the parens. Allman style ftw!. I've been thinking of something along the lines of an xml based notation for lisp.
It's a shame lisp doesn't allow a simple text-based preprocessor.
It's a shame lisp doesn't allow a simple text-based preprocessor.
XML has attributes which S-exprs don't. This can be solved by convention (as SXML does) and doesn't really represent a difference in expressibility.
S-exprs have quote and unquote which XML doesn't. This is a fundamental difference and makes it hard to convert Lisp code that mixes code and data representations.
text-based preprocessor.
(require "asdf") (asdf:load-system :readable) (readable:enable-sweet)
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