Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle

From	Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle
Date	2011-07-14 15:12 +1200
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Teemu Likonen wrote:

> Please don't forget that the whole point of Lisps' (f x) syntax is that
> code is also Lisp data.

It's possible to design other syntaxes that have a similar
property. Prolog, for example -- a Prolog program is expressed
in terms of Prolog data structures, yet it manages to have
things that look like fairly normal function calls and infix
expressions.

-- 
Greg

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Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> - 2011-07-11 20:37 -0700
  Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle jvt <vincent.toups@gmail.com> - 2011-07-12 07:30 -0700
  Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-12 15:27 +0000
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  Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle Petter Gustad <newsmailcomp6@gustad.com> - 2011-07-12 21:02 +0200
    Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-07-12 19:44 +0000
      Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2011-07-13 00:51 +0200
      Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle William Clifford <wobh@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-13 17:53 -0700
    Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-12 19:52 +0000
  Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-07-13 13:47 +1200
    Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-07-12 21:58 -0400
  Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-13 00:39 -0400
    Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-07-12 22:10 -0700
  Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2011-07-13 11:29 +0300
    Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-13 10:34 -0400
      Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2011-07-13 18:25 +0300
    Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-07-14 15:12 +1200

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