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What makes Lisp difficult to read?

47 points · 81 comments · ibobev

  1. piloto_ciego · · focus · HN ↗
    I love lisp and think it’s amazing. One of the things that commonly throws me off when I haven’t been writing it very much day to day is sometimes it’s unclear what’s going to be returned by a function.

    An explicit return 0 is a lot more obvious than just having a 0.

    Also, I’ll agree that a ‘ or a , in the wrong place is very easy to visually miss, then you can read a totally different meaning out of the code.

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