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Applicative-Order Fixed-Point Operator (Programming) by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.

(λp ((λa (a a)) (λf (p (λx ((f f) x))))))

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 26-May-05/10:39 AM
You don't have the faintest idea what this does. There are two opening brackets on the second line for a reason. Your suggestion is equivalent to yanking an arrow out of a cowboy, because it looks sharp.

Note only that, but THERE ARE IN FACT THE CORRECT NUMBER (9) OF BRACKETS OF EACH TYPE ANYWAY. You didn't even bother to count before you leapt in with your wrong, incorrect un-correction. You saw something you didn't understand, and you went "DEAR GOD IT'S DIFFERENT! THERE'S BEEN AN AWFUL MISTAKE!" You call this method, "Women's intuition." I call it "Being tremendously dense."

Now to address your absurd suggestion that I use "your method", aka "The Ladies' method of Autocad."

1. The function definition would stretch over several useless lines for no reason, inhibit reformatting and refactoring, and be an utter waste of time.

2. I would be the laughing stock of the Lisp world. Nobody, NOBODY who writes Lisp puts closing brackets on separate lines, except people who write Autolisp tutorials.

3. Even if there had been a mistake, which there hadn't, my syntax highlighter would have caught it immediately. Fancy that: A program that does your drudgery for you, so you don't have to!

Now if only there was a "Dovina-corrector" program!!!1




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