Re: Visual Studio code convert to **free

I love my parens.... :)

if x = y or x = 2

icky...

some might prefer

if (x = y) or (x = 2)

I actually like

if ((x = y) or (x = 2))

I think it was my logic professor in college that drilled into me "you can
never have too many parens" haha.. which of course didn't apply when I
started programming with RPG.. until RPGIV and now free format.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 10:40 AM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 3/24/24 9:07 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Ah, LISP!// If you programmed MIDI devices in the 80s, LISP was what you
used. So... many... parentheses!

Yes. "Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses." And note that LISP, like
APL, Forth, and Smalltalk, is a "workspace-oriented" language.

There's one particularly memorable s-expression from the "Blocks World"
exercise in the textbook we used:

(CLUTTER CLUTTER (CDR CLUTTER))

(this, as I recall, removed any obstacles that might be blocking a
requested move.)

Another thing that I noticed on my own (and most others evidently
didn't) that a "list" was either the reserved atom NIL, or a dotted-pair
in which the CDR was a simpler list.
--
JHHL

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