merits of Lisp vs Python

[André Thieme]

Ken Tilton schrieb:

> The last time we went thru this a Pythonista finally said, Oh, I get it. 
> These five lines of code I have to write all the time (two setup, one 
> func call, two cleanup) can be collapsed into one or two. The thread 
> will be hard to miss in Google groups (two years back?) and the epiphany 
> appears right at the end of the thread. <hint>

Functional programming is the solution here, not Lisp.

You could make that with a new function (in Python), that takes a
function (and its args, don't remember the correct syntax).

def foo(function, args):
   setup(1)
   setup(2)
   function(args)
   cleanup(1)
   cleanup(2)


The nice thing in Lisp would now be to save a lambda with the macro.
In Python one would fill the name space with throw away functions that
get called only one time.


André
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