merits of Lisp vs Python

[Paul Rubin]

Ken Tilton <kentilton at gmail.com> writes:
> btw, you called the defskill messy (repeated below) "messy". The only
> text not specific to absolute value is D-E-F-S-K-I-L-L.

No, the messiness was not in the macro instantation (defskill blah...),
but in the defmacro that tells the compiler how to expand it.  Python
function defs are lightweight enough that I don't experience a big pain
from using an extra one for a thing like that.