Re: Common Lisp "let"

[Paul Graham <address@hidden>]

There is rarely ambiguity because the variable are atoms
and the values almost always expressions.  If there is 
ambiguity you can use extra spaces.  

--Dan Weinreb wrote:
>    Date: 31 May 2002 15:51:32 -0000
>    From: Paul Graham <pg@archub.org>
> 
>    For the multi-variable case we use with, and even there we
>    only need one pair of parens:
> 
>    (with (x 10 y 3) ...)
> 
> I believe the downside of this approach is an example such as:
> 
>   (with (x w y z a b) ...)
> 
> where it's could be easy (especially with less-trivial variable names)
> to be mistaken about which were the variables being bound and which
> were the expressions being evaluated.  So I think there's a tradeoff
> here.