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2 points by fail 6172 days ago | link | parent

It's not ambiguity.


2 points by simonb 6172 days ago | link

No, it's not. But it can be confusing or at least not very didactic. Let's not forget the tutorial is framed as:

"It's intended for readers with little programming experience and no Lisp experience. It is thus also an introduction to Lisp."

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1 point by jmah 6158 days ago | link

Indeed, it's not ambiguity, but visually a bit confusing. ("Visual ambiguity"? Certainly not in meaning.) But simonb, targeting the document at that audience doesn't have to come at the expense of the Scheme-experienced; after all, a trivial change "foo" to "bar" (#\f to #\b) would remove the confusion. As an aside, I doubt "readers with little programming experience" would be reading the tutorial for a pre-alpha language.

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