Readable S-expressions and Sweet-expressions: Getting the Infix Fix and Fewer Parentheses in Lisp-like Languages
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Description: Proposal to replace pure S-expressions with more flexible mixed alternative. David A. Wheeler's Weblog.
Readable s-expressions and sweet-expressions: Getting the infix fix and fewer parentheses in Lisp-like languages Lisp-based programming languages normally represent programs as , where an operation and its parameters are surrounded by parentheses. The operation to be performed is identified first, and each parameter afterwards is separated by whitespace. So the traditional “2+3†is written as “(+ 2 3)†instead. This is regular, but most people find this hard to read. Here’s a longer example of an s-expression - notice the many parentheses and the lack of infix operations:
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