Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-13 Thread hit_the_lights
Paul Rubin schrieb: Neil Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the above 'duck-typing' idiom considered very useful to a Lisper? It seems logical to me that duck-typing works best in an environment where it is ubiquitous. If users have to implement accessors specifically to use your

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-12 Thread hit_the_lights
Neil Cerutti schrieb: 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