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In article <annius.717696151@freyr> annius@sif.research.ptt.nl (Annius Groenink) writes:

   tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel) writes:

   >I think in order to fulfill their promise in this area, functional
   >programming languages should probably go back to Lisp notation.

   (I
     (Don (' (t
		(think
		      (so)))))) (!).

Well, in SML, that would be:

   I(
     Don( Q( t(
		think(
		      so()))))) (bang).

That doesn't look any prettier to me.

Seriously, I somehow doubt that the "gain in readability" from putting
your parens after your function names, not having to put parens around
"let" and "if", and using infix for the occasional numerical operation
(NB, I write a lot of numerical code myself), is really worth it
compared to the difficulties such irregularities in syntax cause for
tools, tool writers, and simple-minded human readers like me. But, all
these things are a matter of taste, and I don't want to start a flame
war.

Incidentally, what SML modes for Emacs are out there? I have Lars'
mode, but it seems to get confused on occasion, and I can't get it to
give me the simple, no-frills layout that I want.

					Thomas.