On 2006-12-12, André Thieme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Contrast the much more common >> >> a[i] = b[n] >> >> with >> >> (setf (aref a i) (aref b n)) >> >> and the attractions of Python may make more sense. > > Here Python and Lisp are equal, 7 tokens vs 7 tokens, but in > Python one has to write less since "[]" are 2 chars while > "aref" are 4, plus the setf. But from counting the brain units > which I regard as an important factor they are both equal.
A comparison of brain units of the above snippets is irrelevant, since the snippets are not equivalent. The Python snippet will work for any object a that provides __setitem__ and any object b that provides __getitem__. I don't know what an equivalent Lisp snippet would be (or even exactly how close the above snippet comes to matching the Python code), but whatever it is would be a better foundation for comparing brain units with the above Python. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
