alt Hacker News> leading parenthesis to begin every expression
well, that's not really what it is doing - it is saying apply this function to these parameters.
> leading parenthesis to begin every expression
well, that's not really what it is doing - it is saying apply this function to these parameters.
No, it's an s-expression... it may be a function call, but it may also be a macro, and inside a macro it may be a parameter list or a number of other things.