Infix

[Greg Menke]

Hi,

I'm interested in giving infix a try in CL, I found an infix package
in the CMU archives. Is there a "canonical" CL infix-related package
maintained elsewhere? Google didn't come up with much seemingly
relevant.

Thanks,

Greg Menke

[Drew McDermott]

By "infix" do you mean some sort of macro that would enable you to write, e.g.,

(infix x := y * (f(u) + f(v)))

or do you mean a full-scale lexical analyzer and parser that would allow you to avoid seeing Lisp syntax at all?  So you might write

define fib(n)
{
   if n<2 then 1 else fib(n)+fib(n-1)
}

There have been packages that allowed this second form of infix.  Thirty years ago there was a package called MLISP of this variety.  But people who disliked Lisp syntax tended to drift to completely different languages, such as ML, that have evolved in different directions from Lisp.

   -- Drew McDermott
 
 
 
 

[Andreas Bogk]

Drew McDermott <drew.mc...@yale.edu> writes:

> There have been packages that allowed this second form of infix. 
> Thirty years ago there was a package called MLISP of this variety. 
> But people who disliked Lisp syntax tended to drift to completely
> different languages, such as ML, that have evolved in different
> directions from Lisp.

Well, there's always Dylan.

Andreas

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[Eric Moss]

Infix arithmetic, or "infix" everything? I could see infix arithmetic
being handy when coding equations pulled from a paper, but infix
anything else totally emasculates lisp, doesn't it?

Eric

[Greg Menke]

Eric Moss <eric...@alltel.net> writes:

Infix arithmetic. I prefer Lisp's normal style, but would like to see
what its like to use infix, and how it works out into real Lisp. I'll
give the CMU version a try I guess.

Gregm