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by adastra22 932 days ago
A-expressions are a choice, and it is fine to argue whether it is a good one. There are plenty of other ways of achieving honiconic syntax.
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ColonelPhantom 931 days ago
What's an A-expression? I tried looking it up but didn't find anything.

I have heard of M-expressions but never of an actual implementation. Scheme also seems to have some SRFIs involving alternate syntax that's whitespace dependent, like SRFI 119 (wisp), SRFI 110 (sweet-expressions or T-expressions), or SRFI 49.

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adastra22 931 days ago
A mistype of S-expression that is outside the edit window.
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