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by nine_k
1111 days ago
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When Lisp first appeared, square brackets were not even standard characters. Maybe McCarthy would use them if he could. The word "set" is much older, and is universally supported. But most glaringly, (= a b) has a well-understood and entirely different meaning in most lisps, also since 1950s. It's comparison, not assignment. Breaking a well-set convention is a very different thing than making a new, slightly improved convention. |
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