[Python-Dev] Backwards Incompatibility

[Eric S. Raymond]

Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>:
> > Crusty old LISP hackers like me tend to be really attached to being
> > able to (a) lash up S-expressions that happen to be LISP function calls on
> > the fly, and then (b) hand them to eval.  "No separation between code
> > and data" is one of the central dogmas of our old-time religion.
> 
> Really?  I thought the "no separation between code and data" thing
> more referred to macros than anything else.

Another implication; and, as you say, more often actually useful.
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