[plt-scheme] Re: Paren Paralysis Sufferers Unite

Nice... :D

On 16 Oct, 20:41, Robby Findler <ro... at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> Your mistake is that you write () when you should write {}. Just
> substitute all of your () for {}s and then you'll be happy.
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> Robby
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> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Morgan <lianci... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > Newbie here getting used to scheme and getting a whole lota
> > "procedure application: expected procedure blah blah blah blah"
> > because of missing parens.
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> > How do you all cope emotionally? :-p
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> > More importantly, what survival tricks are there to discovering
> > whether there's too few or too many parens? Just knowing the syntax
> > backward?
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> > I mean, my nice purple SICP book informs me LISP doesn't give a crap
> > about syntax compared to most languages, yet the interpreter throws a
> > fit if I've a single pair of superfluous parentheses?
> > It just seems a bit unreasonable, c++ and java are entirely happy to
> > allow my superfluous parentheses I'm accustomed to using, it can make
> > the code easier to read after all.
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> > Discuss :)
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