Dan Drake 🦆<p>In lispy languages, you have prefix notation. Mostly this doesn't bother me, except for inequalities:</p><p>(< a b)</p><p>My little pea-brain thinks visually and wants the pointy end pointing to the smaller number -- or, equivalently, the alligator eating the larger number.</p><p>But prefix notation makes it very slick to check for a monotonic sequence with just a single < or >:</p><p>(< a b c d)</p><p>that same boolean expression would, with infix notation, be something like</p><p>(a < b) && (b < c) && (c < d)</p><p>or maybe a < b < c < d.</p><p>Just a random little thing that I do like about Racket, and lisp-y languages in general.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syntax</span></a></p>