Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Edi Weitz]

[Followup-To ignored because I don't read comp.lang.python]

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:13:54 GMT, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:

> I think it's about a single namespace (Scheme, Python, Haskell, ...)
> vs CLisp's dual namespaces.  People get used pretty fast to having
> every object (whether callable or not) "first-class" --
> e.g. sendable as an argument without any need for stropping or the
> like.  To you, HOFs may feel like special cases needing special
> syntax that toots horns and rings bells; to people used to passing
> functions as arguments as a way of living, that's as syntactically
> obtrusive as, say, O'CAML's mandate that you use +. and not plain +
> when summing floats rather than ints

In Common Lisp (not "CLisp", that's an implementation) functions /are/
first-class and sendable as an argument "without any need for
stropping or the like." What exactly are you talking about?

Edi.