Re: Iteration in lisp


Duane Rettig wrote:

helpful. (I always got a kick out of anal programs, in any language,
that had error messages that say something like "Error: missing comma
after 'this'" [well, why doesn't the program give the programmer a
break and add the comma - if it's unambiguous, what's the harm? that
the wayward programmer will never learn his lesson???] ... sheesh)

Because while inserting a comma produces valid syntax the editing error might not have been omitting a comma. It usually is, but do we want compilers guessing at which mistake me made? Without mentioning it?

People have had little success writing software that works, it may be too soon for people to be writing software that figures out what software other people meant to write.

kenny
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