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Non-lispers don't always realize that more parens can actually be a feature :)

• debacle 12y 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)).
  • nickik 12y ago
    Its().just().the().same().for().us().lispers().abstractFactoryFactory()
    • pekk 12y ago
      Why not both?
      • sitkack 12y ago
        Quasiquote is going into Java 9.
    • ajuc 12y ago
      And I wouldn't want to write sql like that ;)
  • collyw 12y ago
    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.