Hy (lisp)

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1958 (Lisp) -> 2020 (Hy)

Hy designed to interact with Python by translating expressions into Python's abstract syntax tree (AST)

(write-line "Hello World")
(write (+ 7 9 11))   # 7 + 9 + 11
(write (+ (* (/ 9 5) 60) 32))  # ((9/5)*60)+32

basic building blocks

atom: numbers and special characters

123008907  abc123

list: a sequence of atoms and/or other lists enclosed in parentheses

(a ( a b c) d e fgh)

string: a group of characters enclosed in double quotation marks

" I am a string"

semicolon symbol (;) is used for indicating a comment line
case-insensitive
three types of elements are constants and always return their own value
Numbers; letter t, logical true; value nil, logical false, empty list

data types can be categorized as

Scalar types - for example, number types, characters, symbols etc
Data structures - for example, lists, vectors, bit-vectors, and strings

macro is a function

(defmacro setTo10(num)
(setq num 10)(print num))
(setq x 25)
(print x)
(setTo10 x)

Global variables are generally declared using the defvar construct.

(defvar x 234)
(write x)

let and prog for creating local variables.

(prog ((x '(a b c))(y '(1 2 3))(z '(p q 10)))
(format t "x = ~a y = ~a z = ~a" x y z))  # x = (A B C) y = (1 2 3) z = (P Q 10)