[PRL] Old parentheses just fade away

[Mitchell Wand]

(let
  ((mac-arthur-quote "old soldiers don't die, they just fade away")
   (and 'and)
   (neither 'neither)
   (other-song-title "A Lighter Shade of Pale"))
 `(actually ,neither of those were intended to be song allusions .  (The
first is from Douglas MacArthur (,mac-arthur-quote) ,and I used it
   just to make the message look interesting . (I didnt even notice the
allusion to ,other-song-title . (I was just using the words literally)))))

Is that enough of a quasi-quote from a song for you?

--Mitch



On 2/15/07, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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>
> On Feb 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Dale Vaillancourt wrote:
>
> > I haven't seen a page like that, but Shriram used that transition in
> > his LL1 talk while he was explaining the DFA macro.  Googling "Swine
> > Before Perl" yields the slides.  -Dale
>
>
> He did and we preached the idea for years and years in the TS!
> workshops.
>
> It is also a habit of mine to use quasi-quotes from songs to make
> my point but your subject line and your message body use two
> different songs so it isn't clear to me whether you're looking
> for specific words/phrases or just the idea.
>
> I do say that I heard this idea in Indiana.
>
> I also won't claim any specific words but I did get Cormac
> to graduate with the "fade away" line.
>
> -- Matthias
>
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> >
> > On Feb 14, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Mitchell Wand wrote:
> >
> >> I recall seeing a while back a page explaining how an experienced
> >> Scheme programmer no longer "sees" parentheses-- he showed an
> >> example several times, talking about it and painting the parens in
> >> lighter and lighter shades of gray.
> >>
> >> Do any of you remember seeing this?  I haven't thought of a good
> >> way of searching for it.  I don't remember what the example was.
> >>
> >> --Mitch
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