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From: yoann padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
To: Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE>
Cc: Jonathan Roewen <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] lisp to ocaml
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:17:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FDFBAEE6-B469-4872-998A-D96E43694EDC@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0509181558080.1141@eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de>

>> Just all the parentheses gets a bit confusing for a first
>> look at lisp ;-)
>>
>
> The trick is:
>
> (1) Do not look at the parentheses. Read and write code by  
> indentation.
>
> (2) Use a text editor that helps you with this.
>
> (3) paren-sensitive syntax highlighting is a great thing.
>

You can also in some scheme (such as plt scheme) use other symbols  
than parenthesis such as '[' ']'.
It reduces the number of () and makes some code looks better.

for instance

(defun factorial (n)
   (cond [(= n 0) 1]
              [(> n 0)  (* n (fact (- n 1)))]
   ))

> You will find the parens to be much less confusing once you learned  
> not to
> look at them. :-)
>
>
> -- 
> regards,               tf@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de              (o_
>  Thomas Fischbacher -  http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf  //\
> (lambda (n) ((lambda (p q r) (p p q r)) (lambda (g x y)           V_/_
> (if (= x 0) y (g g (- x 1) (* x y)))) n 1))                   
> (Debian GNU)
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-18 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-18  1:08 Jonathan Roewen
2005-09-18  2:56 ` Jon Harrop
2005-09-18 14:06 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-09-18 14:17   ` yoann padioleau [this message]
2005-09-18 14:37     ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-09-18 15:44   ` Jon Harrop
2005-09-18 16:08     ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-09-18 17:10       ` brogoff
2005-09-19 13:08 ` Christoph Bauer

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