On 2011-08-14, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes. Not everything's an expression; a block of code is not an > expression that returns a code object, and variable assignment is a > statement. Some day, I'd like to play around with a language where > everything's an expression and yet it doesn't look like LISP - just > for the fun of it. It probably won't be any more useful for real world > coding, but it'd be fun to tinker with.
Ruby and Lua are both pretty close. I'm not an expert in either, but I can't think of anything I can write in Ruby which isn't an expression. -s -- Copyright 2011, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
