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Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

Jon S. Anthony j-anthony at rcn.com
Tue Nov 11 10:44:25 EST 2003 
Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au> writes:

> Well, DEFTYPE in lisp really just defines a function, doesn't it?
> So that's not much different than DEFUN.  Likewise, DEFCLASS just
> defines a collection of functions, doesn't it?  OK, maybe these
> also record some extra information in some global symbol tables.
> That is easily emulated if you really want.
> 
> I don't know exactly what DEFPACKAGE does, but if the others are any
> guide, it's probably not too hard either.

Yes, if you reimplement Lisp you can achieve what was asked.  However,
I don't think "turing equivalence" or Greenspun's tenth was the point...

/Jon
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