[CRConrad]

> You could argue that it's just syntactic sugar, but it's bloody important syntactic sugar.

Yes, of course you could, since everything beyond, uh, paper tape, next-state table, and current pen-position (or whatever other pieces there are in a theoretical Turing machine) is basically syntactic sugar. Or, IOW, all programming languages higher than assembly are nothing but syntactic sugar. I like syntactic sugar.

(But OTOH, I'm a diabetic. Gotta watch out for that sugar.)

[kragen]

does this mean that lisp programmers are syntactic diabetics

i hear they're concerned about cancer of the semicolon