Alex Mizrahi wrote: > (message (Hello 'Bjoern) >> BS> Can you give an example? I cannot imagine how homogenity >> always BS> results in easiness. > homogenity means that i can cut any expression and paste in any > other expression, and as long as lexical variables are ok, i'll > get correct results -- i don't have to reindent it or whatever.
Ah, so *that's* what you meant ... but I don't really understand the ease of it. > also, there's no need for operator precendence to be taken in > accound -- order is explicitly defined. expressions are > homogenous, they do not depend on other expressions near them > (except lexical variables and side effects). Sorry, I don't get it ;) Where does Python have things like nonexplicit defined operator order? > the other example of homogenous syntax is XML, that is very > popular nowadays, and it's very similar to lisp's s-expressions. Spoken freely, I don't like XML because it's hardly readable. Is it "easy"? If yes, what's your definition of "easy"? Regards, Björn Xpost cll,clp -- BOFH excuse #437: crop circles in the corn shell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list