Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sat Apr 25 04:36:27 EDT 2009


"Ciprian Dorin, Craciun" <ciprian.craciun at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Paul Rubin
> <http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> > Use the builtin a==b, similar to (equal a b)
> 
>     But how about extensibility?

Easily extensible. If you want types that compare in different ways,
just define your new type so that the comparison methods do what you
want them to do.

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