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:::i don't know if it is necessary to make them completely independent steps, but i think it is a good idea to keep them separate enough to that for example the data handling is done by a function call and someone using the code can easily swap out the function with another one. i think the pike solution exemplifies this.
:::how can we write the task description to make this more clear?--[[User:EMBee|eMBee]] 01:51, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
==How about concentrating on the example?==
How about ''not'' worrying too much about the fact that S-expressions are mentioned and concentrating on doing enough for a Rosetta Code task.
Remember - this shouldn't necessarily be code to be used, as-is, in some other project. There is an example given and, apart from the examples output being couched in terms of Python, there should be enough there:
* Here's an example S-expression,
* Here's what your intermediate format should look like,
* And the final full-circle output should look like the input (apart from whitespace maybe).
This would address all the talk here on formats, Lisp, escape characters, and what types of atoms are needed. You would need strings, integers, floats and a nestable list structure to put them in.
The task description might need some work on maybe taking the specific reference to Python out and instead explaining that it is a nestable native list structure, etc, etc, .... It could also do with stressing the importance of implementing the task example over any wider considerations. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 03:52, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
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