Re: [RP] new fdump structure may affect scripts

[Trent Buck]

Quoth Kevin Geiss on or about 2004-11-24:
> why does it have the word 'frame' in there? aren't the parens enough to
> separate frames? or are there other entities that may be produced with
> a similar syntax, besides just frames?

It's a Lisp thing.  Operations (functions) take the form '(operation
operands)'.  Of course, data takes the form '(elements)', so it depends
on whether we're planning on writing scripts that say (make-frame
(read)) or (eval (read)) :-)

-trent
PS: That's just *my* take.  Shawn's answer is the canonical one.