Thursday, October 15, 2020

Apropos of Nothing

Lisp programmers are of the opinion that [] and {} are just () with delusions of grandeur.

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  1. The "Reaction" buttons don't work (for me).

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  2. Except in Interlisp and its predecessors, where ] terminates all open ( instances back to the last ] (or the beginning of the S-expression if there is none), and vice versa. Interactively it's handy to type a function definition into the REPL and just close it with ] instead of the usual ))))))).

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