Re: [art] Fwd: S-expressions

[Rob Sayre <[e-mail]>]

John Levine <[e-mail]>:
> I don't think it does use them. The things described in
> draft-rivest-sexp have # escapes to embed hex constants and other
> strange stuff not found in anything else that people call
> S-expressions.

Right, the question is whether we should publish this one when there's a
much more successful version with the same name. Some of the drafts
referenced also don't reference this document, they just say
"S-expressions".

> The normal S-expressions used in many versions of Lisp and Scheme,
> which I think are the same as what WASM uses, are described in many
> places starting with the Lisp 1.5 manual from the early 1960s.

Yep, I have "Lisp in Small Pieces" (Queinnec, 1994) on the bookshelf right
next to me, along with many other usual suspects in Scheme and Lisp
that aren't as difficult. Many of these versions vary in subtle ways. I
thought the WASM way was interesting because they managed to standardize it
and get really good adoption.

thanks,
Rob