__volatile__ __asm__

volatile is a C keyword, and programmers know better than using asm as an identifier. Why do people insist on using double underscores around them, especially Linux kernel developers?

Also, why do people use things like __attribute__((aligned(n))) instead of defining a macro ALIGNED(n)?

>>35
Its been done many times and it never caught on.
In practice nobody whose interested in Lisp is interested in hiding the parens. McCarthy originally provided M-expressions as  a cover over the Sexps but nobody used it and worked directly with sSxps. Theres been a few other attempts. In Schemeland there was SRFI 49 which creates a FIOCScheme but that obviously never caught on.

Nobody is interested in your ScalaLisp ideas, `fagstorm'.