Re: [boost] RFC: Boost.XML API prototype in the sandbox

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-13 16:59:09

on Fri Jul 13 2007, Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard-AT-etu.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:

>> And I found that this felt like a natural way to define pairs.
>
> It's the natural lisp way.

Well, one of Lisp's limitations is its syntactic uniformity.  You get
no visual clues from looking the symbols that make up a program about
what that program means.  Curiously, Lispers often tout this
uniformity as an expressivity *advantage*, one that I just don't see.
For maximum expressivity, I want lots of syntactic flexibility.

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