Thanks all for the responses. Extra kudos to Steve J and Michele S.
that cleared it up for me.
the context of my question comes from reading up on Lisp in "Loving
Lisp - the Savy Programmer's Secret Weapon",
http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/lisp_lic.htm, where the author
described building up
I am experimenting with the interactive interpreter environments of
Python and Ruby and I ran into what seems to be a fundamental
difference. However I may be doing something wrong in Python. Please
comment and correct me if I am wrong
In both languages, you can start up the interactive interprete
I recently complained elsewhere that Python doesn't have multiline
comments. i was told to use triple quoted strings to make multiline
comments. My question is that since a triple quoted string is actually
a language construct, does it use cause a runtime construction of a
string which is then disc
