Re: Shootout Stuff

[Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel@soegaard.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David N. Welton" <davidw@dedasys.com>
To: <plt-scheme@fast.cs.utah.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: Shootout Stuff


> MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>
> > MichaelL@frogware.com <MichaelL@frogware.com> wrote:
> > > Having said that, Scheme has one down side: Scheme programs are
> > > harder to read. Other languages give you much better visual cues
> > > about the structure of the program; in Scheme you have to really
> > > work to see it.

[snip]

> I think that visually, parentheses tend to not line up vertically very
> well.
>
> [[[[
>   [[

No problem - the reader already understands [] in stead of ().
:-)

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Jens Axel Søgaard