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sexp

sexp

English

Noun

sexp (plural sexps)

  1. (computing) A symbolic expression.
    • 1992, Michael A Schoonover, John S Bowie, William Robert Arnold, GNU Emacs: UNIX text editing and programming
      The fact that lists and sexps can contain nested lists and sexps is important...
    • 2005, Peter Seibel, Practical Common Lisp
      ...HTML and CSS generation from sexps...