"We are currently in the design stage, and have not written a line of LISP."
Your reaching out seems fairly premature...
"That is why I'm here. I would like to learn about your opinions before
doing anything. As a collective, this group has a lot of knowledge about
the language."
My opinion is
Works for me. The site appears to have a new, cleaner look, so I guess
the downtime was due to an upgrade?... Though the site's news doesn't
mention this.
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How about something like this?
This may neither be suitable in the context of teaching newbies nor
appeal to your sense of aesthetics, however I like this general
approach as a way of cleanly (?) "overlaying" a new family of
operators on top of already established symbols as an alternative to
"let
"The ANS allows a compiler to ignore compiler-macros altogether, or
whenever it likes. This provision was necessary to get compiler
macros into the standard (to avoid imposing new features on
implementations unwilling or unable to conform) but this makes the
facility portably unusable."
Wouldn't
This is pretty tragic for me because I made and open-sourced a bunch
of "pretty good" DSL's, unfortunately they're still not cleaned up and
completely undocumented. Also, all the usage examples of them are
buried in some big abortive undocumented proprietary project with lots
of newb-code (most of
[ Sorry for double-post Ala'a, I forgot to reply-all :( ]
WITH-NESTING reduces the nesting cost of an arbitrary number of
consecutive binding forms to one level, with a highly regular and
simple syntax almost inherently readable to anyone without prior
exposure (I think?). It may not be the most c
