On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 19:48, Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote: > The difference is that the two languages define 'expression' differently. > [...]
I don't know if this is interesting or pertinent to the topic. Christian Seberino just expressed a doubt about how a clear separation between a statement and an expression is quite desiderable in the "real" programming world. And I tried to explain it with the assignment operation, since a ton of programmers feel very frustrated about reading code of other programmers with assignment in an if statement. I'm quite sure that they thought, as I thought: "What do this?" Worse when their program failed and they discovered that they wrote `if (a=b)` instead of `if (a==b)`. I'm just more curious about why Lisp programmers think that it's better to not make a hard distinction between statements and expressions. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
