Scheme and Common Lisp are much more different than I realised.
They have very different error handling models, object systems, approaches to documentation (e.g. use of docstrings), not to mention conventions on iteration, recursion and early termination.
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I'm exploring how I show lists in my documentation. I like boxes for tidiness, but it's much less space efficient. Which do you prefer?
I should also survey how other sites handle this.
When talking about a match or a switch statement, I've typically seen people talk about individual 'cases' or 'arms'.
TIL Zig uses 'prongs' instead!
I'm trying to decide the best voice for PL documentation.
Passive: "`let` can be used with destructuring."
Reader focused: "You can use `let` with destructuring."
Describing the PL: "FooLang supports destructuring with `let`."
Anyone have opinions or best practices?