Jonathan Gardner <jgard...@jonathangardner.net> writes: > On Jan 6, 8:18 am, sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> wrote: >> On Jan 6, 4:32 pm, mark <mark.fi...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> > I want to implement a internal DSL in Python. I would like the syntax >> > as human readable as possible. >> >> Also beware that Python is not Lisp. You cannot define new syntax (yes >> I've seen the goto joke). > > This isn't really true. You can, for instance, write a program (in > Python) that takes your pseudo-Python and converts it into Python. > This is what a number of templating libraries such as Mako do.
Which is not even close to being the same. Lisp - the program source is also the data format Python - the program source is a string I could go on a really long rant about how the two are worlds apart, but I'll let Google tell you if you're really interested. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
