Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Sorry, I missed something here. Why do you need a release to have these >> sorts of things? Can't you just expand the language via macros to >> create whatever facility of this sort you need... > > Huh? Are you saying Lisp systems never release new versions?
The Common Lisp standard hasn't been updated in over a decade. Moreover, one doesn't need to wait for a standard to add syntax--one just adds it and gets on with solving the problem at hand. > And you can't implement Python generators as Lisp macros in any > reasonable way. I'm pretty certain it could be done with conditions. -- Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl> We're going to Moe's. If we're not back, avenge our deaths. --Homer Simpson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
