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[QUOTE="Pascal Bourguignon, post: 1729889"]
Yes.   The point is  that the  language is  rather agnostic  about any
topic, even about the syntax.   Personnaly I don't like much LOOP, but
I take it as an example by the language designers showing us that it's
even possioble to avoid parethensis if you don't want them.

Well,  I would say  that kanji  is badly  designed, compared  to latin
alphabet.   The voyels  are composed  with consones  (with diacritical
marks) and  consones are  written following four  or five  groups with
additional diacritical  marks to  distinguish within the  groups. It's
more a phonetic code than a true alphabet.

Most  probably, you  would write  a  macro named  WITH-INFIX and  thus
automatically scope the infix part:

(with-infix  1 / x + 1 / ( x ^ 3 ) +  1 / ( x ^ 5 ) )

and if you write it well:
    
    (with-infix
      if a = b then format t "equal ~D~%" a ;  
        else format t "diff ~D /= ~D~%" a b ; endif ;
      for i = 1 to 10 ; print i ; next i )

I'll tell you the secret: yes  there are alot of parethesis. This is a
price  all  lispers  pay  for  greater benefits.   It  gives  us  such
advantages that we gladly pay the price.

Otherwise, I would say:

1- don't pay so much attention to the parenthesis!

2- if you have to and it's hard, then it means the code is badly
       structured (probably too big a function). Rewrite it, factorize.

3- what do you mean  "printed"?  A double-click on any parenthesis
       selects the enclosed list so it's quite easy to  see what it encloses.
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