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RE: SMIE documentation
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Bob Rogers |
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RE: SMIE documentation |
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Sat, 4 Dec 2010 16:04:20 -0500 |
From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 11:46:11 -0800
You might find usage variable.[*] Personally, I wouldn't dream of
saying "ess-exp" (I can hardly pronounce it) - I always say "sexp".
But then I don't say "ess-ex" either, unless referring to the county
in Britland. ;-) . . .
Likewise, I've always said "SEX pee" (for some 30 years now). I've
sometimes seen it spelled "s-exp", perhaps by writers objecting to the
off-color flavor, but I can't recall anyone ever pronouncing it that way
(with the possible exception of Lisp newbies).
Googling "+sexp pronunciation lisp" is no help, BTW. Likewise the
Wikipedia entry for S-expression. And oddly s-expression, sexp, and
symbolic expression are absent from the Common Lisp HyperSpec's index
and glossary (is there a searchable version?).
CLHS appears to prefer more specific terms like "expression", "list",
etc. (Really, when you are talking about Lisp, prefixing "symbolic" is
kinda redundant, right? ;-)
And I cannot find anything about this in CLTL2 (is there a searchable
version that works?).
In my paper copy, I find ~S described as "the S-expression format
directive", but no other use of the term. (It appears in the index,
right above "sex". ;-)
-- Bob Rogers
http://www.rgrjr.com/