Re: Symbol clashes: how to avoid them. Part 2

On 2008-10-31, budden <budden01@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
- package system is a complete mess (I insist on that whatever true
lispers say)

But you could design a better one, right?

Problem is, you obviously don't have a clue about how to look at a system from
all possible angles, identify all possible issues, filter out those that are
non-issues and prioritize the rest.

- every independent expert would say very definitely that a.b.c is
much easier to read that (c-of (b-of a)).

That's until the dot notation sprouts some hair, like for e-mail
routing:

foo%bar@xxxxx!d

:)

Don't even say about (slot-
value (slot-value a 'b) 'c). I showed my lisp sources printed to my
girl-friend (she is a linguist) and I was unable to explain why eight
closing parens go in a row...

You're joking, right? Linguists learn about bracket notation in their
undergraduate classes, and such material is tested on exams.
E.g. ``rewrite this syntax tree using labelled brackets''.

Finally, I began to think that lisp is NOT a language for a web

Blah blah blah. Who gives a *** about your opinions about
what Lisp is good for.
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