Ok, I'm sorry. This kind of discussions between two groups of people, neither of who know the other person's language very well just wind me up something chronic! It wasn't your post as such, just reading through most of the thread in one go.
That will teach me to post while cross :). Sorry for any offence. Anything that makes programming more fun is good, and I hope the Lisp true way explodes into my head at some point. Cheers, Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list