merits of Lisp vs Python

[Slawomir Nowaczyk]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:41:29 -0500
Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavallaro at pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-mac.com> wrote:

#> On 2006-12-12 19:18:10 -0500, "George Sakkis" <george.sakkis at gmail.com> said:
#> 
#> > If you mistakenly select an extra parenthesis or omit one, it's
#> > the same thing.
#> 
#> Because you can't mistakenly select an extra paren or omit one in a
#> lisp-aware editor.

Sure I can! I think you misunderstood what George said.

(unless (eq 1 2) (if (eql 2 3) (x)) (y))

How is the editor supposed to know whether I want to cut/paste the
s-expression starting with "if" or the one with "eql"?

#> Whether its a commercial lisp IDE or emacs, you don't manually select
#> s-expressions. You put your cursor/point at one paren and you tell
#> the editor - with a keystroke or a mouse click - to find the matching
#> paren and select everything contained between the two.

Oh, you mean you have never seen a Python environment which could mark
the current block of code?

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   Slawomir Nowaczyk
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