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Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project
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Xah Lee |
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Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:11:09 -0000 |
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On May 31, 12:41 pm, Alessandro Piras <lay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > IMHO an alternative (but compatible ) eLISP-dialect simply allowing to
> > swap parens and functionnames and to write "message(...)" instead of
> > "(message...)" would increase the acceptance immidiately.
>
> Sounds Like M-expressions. It has been tried in the past in the Lisp world,
> without much success. Most programmers realize after few time the
> sweetness of S-expressions and macros. I think it would just lead to a
> small amount of M-expressions code that would be soon refactored as
> S-expressions.. Not worth the effort I suspect.
there are lisp languages with full M-expression and successful one at
that.
See the following articles for much detail and examples.
• The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully
Nested Notations
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html
• Fundamental Problems of Lisp
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/lisp_problems.html
Xah
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Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project, Helmut Eller, 2010/12/08