A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

[jayessay]

Ken Tilton <kentilton at gmail.com> writes:

> Alexander Schmolck wrote:
> > jayessay <nospam at foo.com> writes:
> >
> >>"Michele Simionato" <michele.simionato at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I was interested in a proof of concept, to show that Python can
> >>>emulate Lisp special variables with no big effort.
> >>
> >>OK, but the sort of "proof of concept" given here is something you can
> >> hack up in pretty much anything.
> > Care to provide e.g. a java equivalent?
> 
> I think the point is that, with the variable actually being just a
> string and with dedicated new explicit functions required as
> "accessors", well, you could hack that up in any language with
> dictionaries. It is the beginnings of an interpreter, not Python
> itself even feigning special behavior.

Exactly.  Of course this is going to be totally lost on the intended
audience...


/Jon

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