Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 03:05:23 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:

There is quite a lot of programming languages that have whitespace
separated lists.  Most of them have "Algol like" syntax.

POP-2 or POP-11, from what I recall:

    [a b c]

is a list literal, while

    [% "a", "b", "c" %]

is a list expression.

PostScript:

    [2 2 add dup 8 mul dup 2 div]

is a long-winded way of writing

    [4 32 16.0]

In Lisp, whether an S-expression is meant to be taken literally or now
comes down to a single quote mark:

    '(+ 2 2)

is the literal list “(+ 2 2)”, while

    (+ 2 2)

is 4.

Which of these would you consider to have “Algol like” syntax? Only the
first one.