Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

Douglas Alan doug at alum.mit.edu
Fri Jun 15 23:44:33 EDT 2007


Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> writes:

> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:05:27 -0400, Douglas Alan wrote:

>> You are ignoring the fact that Scheme has a powerful syntax extension
>> mechanism (i.e., hygenic macros), which means that anyone in the world
>> can basically extend Scheme to include practically any language
>> feature they might like it to have.

> You say that like it is a good thing.

A chaque son gout.

|>oug



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