[Python-Dev] conditional expressions - add parens? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 12 23:34:29 CET 2006

Joe Smith wrote:

LISP was a disaster to use, so I doubt your language would have been any worse.

At least Lisp would let you say

(* 4 a c)

and not force you to write

(* (* 4 a) c)

My language would not have been so forgiving, unless you were willing to define a bunch of different * functions with different numbers of parameters.

BTW, I did use Lisp and Scheme fairly heavily for a period, and didn't find them to be disasters -- at least not because of the parens.

Greg

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