Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Tue Oct 7 11:39:14 EDT 2003


In article <36wisn1fc03.fsf at chagall.ti.uni-mannheim.de>,
 Matthias <no at spam.pls> wrote:

> ctually, I meant more lazy-like-lazy-in-Haskell.  Infinite data
> structures and such.  "primes" being a list representing _all_ prime
> numbers for instance.  You can build this as soon as you have closures
> but making the construction easy to use for the application programmer
> might be a challenge without macros.  But I don't know what
> "properties" are in Python, possibly they are built for exactly that.

You mean like as in
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/117119
?

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science




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