What can you do in LISP that you can't do in Python

[Chris Tavares]

"mikel evins" <himself at mikelevins.com> wrote in message
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> How, in Python, do you
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> 1) build new syntax
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Typically, you don't. Building new syntax is a technique that's limited to
the LISP and FORTH families AFAIK.

> 2) capture a lexical environment
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You don't. You build an object - same net effect (state & behavior kept
together), different implementation.

-Chris

P.S. There is the default argument hack, but in general Python code just
creating a class is a lot more straightforward.