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1 point by carbon 6171 days ago | link | parent | on: Is Arc good for big projects?

Ok, I can see that access methods is a solution of the problem of self-describeness of a program. Could you tell me if I am right doing it like this:

(get-title book)

(set-title book "New title")

(Book (title "Blabla") (authors ("Tom" "John")) (year 2008) )

Is it the way an expirienced Lisp programmer would do it?

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3 points by carbon 6174 days ago | link | parent | on: The proposed : syntax

I have been considering using Lisp one day, but I was discouraged by the lack of syntax. So I have created my one homoiconic syntax for my purposes. It has lists, but also tuples and records, and what can be most interesting for you - it has syntactic sugar, which I think can be adapted in Arc or in any other Lisp. If you are interested how I have solved it, have a look at: http://harpoon.sourceforge.net http://harpoon.sourceforge.net/sugar.html

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