On 7/19/12, Kartik Agaram <a...@akkartik.com> wrote:
>> "." is just whitespace.
>
> Ah, of course :/ I'm having trouble holding that in my head.
>
> Getting rid of periods, I'm still having trouble understanding why the
> second line isn't wrapped in parens in:
>
> \
> a
> b c
>
> Shouldn't this be ((a (b c)))?
>
Yes it is.
But what you were asking was this:
\
list-of x
list x
And it's wrong, because it's parsed as:
(
(list-of x
(list x)))
Because what we wanted was:
(
(list-of x)
(list x))
That's why we have SPLIT:
\
list-of x
\ list x
Which does that for you magically.
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