"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try suggesting on a Lisp or Scheme group that having only one type > of syntax (prefix expressions) lacks something and that they should > add variety in the form of statement syntax ;-) Hint: some Lispers > have bragged here about the simplicity of 'one way to do it' and put > Python down for its mixed syntax. (Of course, this does not mean > that some dialects have not sneaked in lists of statements thru a > back door ;-).
Almost all Lisp dialects have an extremely powerful macro mechanism that lets users and communities extend the syntax of the language in very general ways. Consequently, dialects such a Scheme try to keep the core language as simple as possible. Additional ways of doing things can be loaded in as a library module. So, a language such as Scheme may have no *obvious* way of something, and yet may provide excellent means to extend the language so that many obvious ways might be provided. |>oug -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
