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by celeritascelery 636 days ago
It would, but lisp has prefix operators, so you wouldn’t have to worry about it getting confused.
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Although in a Lisp such as Scheme, you could pass around the negation operator in something like (map - '(1 2 3)), so it would be a valid concern that it might clash.
The problem with that is that there are spaces between map, -, and '(1 2 3). The only way to get spaces into a name is by using vertical bars:

  (defvar |do i 10| 1.100)