Re: two things...

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >> What are those straight lines for? XEmacs rules.
> Al> No. If those were emacs rules, they'd have lots of () brackets
> I didn't have room in a 4-line .sig for the macro definitions.

;)

> Al> and be in reverse polish notation ;)
> Lisp is polish notation (operator first).

Sorry, yes, you're right. I have to learn so many dead languages (!) I get
the confused - Lisp, Haskell, Scheme, they all look the same to me :( Lots
of brackets, little obvious work going on!

Cheers,

Alex.

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