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From: Phil Clayton <phil.clayton@lineone.net>
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On Oct 31, 6:47=A0pm, Shark8 <onewingedsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, if you think that'll trigger "drowning in parentheses"-fear then
> you should probably stay away from LISP.

I do.  On the subject of LISP, I saw a great talk recently on Clojure
(think LISP on JVM) containing what is now one of my all time
favourite slides:
http://blog.fogus.me/2010/10/25/fertile-ground-the-roots-of-clojure/
Go to slide 21 (of 75).


> As for a better syntax, I'm not sure; but then again I'm not sure that
> an "x:=3D y if b else z"-style of expression is actually needed given
> that we have declare-blocks.

Are loop statements actually needed given the presence of conditional
statements and goto statements? :)

Phil