On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:07:01 +1300, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tried to confuse everyone with this message:
>Robert Uhl wrote: > >> o Symbols >> >> In Lisp, a symbol is essentially a hashed string; > >Are you aware that strings can be interned in Python? >Furthermore, any string literal in the source that >is a syntactically valid identifier is automatically >interned, and you can intern any string explicitly >if you need. This gives you exactly the same >capabilities as symbols in Lisp. Are you aware that you hardly know any Lisp yet make such bold and unfounded claims? Unless interning a string somehow gives it a property list, slot value and function value it doesn't give you the same capabilities. -- |Don't believe this - you're not worthless ,gr---------.ru |It's us against millions and we can't take them all... | ue il | |But we can take them on! | @ma | | (A Wilhelm Scream - The Rip) |______________| -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
