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by debacle 4216 days ago
Lispers don't always realize that too many parens/brackets is a code smell in almost any other language. It makes people unnecessarily wary of (stuff (like 'this)).
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Its().just().the().same().for().us().lispers().abstractFactoryFactory()
And I wouldn't want to write sql like that ;)
Why not both?
Quasiquote is going into Java 9.
I dunno. If I have a "complex" condition with more than two parts to it, I prefer to be liberal with parenthesis, rather than expect any future maintainer to remember all the operator precedence rules.