On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Jens Axel Soegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > I am experimenting with a little reader extension for infix expressions (in > PLT-Scheme). > Up to now I used the syntax #$"1+2", but decided to switch to #$1+2$ .
Funny. Someone seems to have just requested a similar feature to Gambit's infix syntax in Larceny as well. infix math notation is one of the things that truly piss off Lisp outsiders. They don't see the point of relearning math or why being more verbose. I'm ok with it by now, but truthfully, I don't buy the argument some use that (+ 1 2 3 4) is better than 1+2+3+4 because you only have to type + once. It turns out the second expression is shorter because + is used like space and there's no need for parentheses. Anyway, couldn't the straightforward syntax for complex numbers just be extended for dealing with any arithmetic expressions?
