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Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

Joe Marshall jrm at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Oct 15 13:40:00 EDT 2003 
Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmx.net> writes:


> Additionally most of the time the code is actively being edited and thus *not*
> in a consistent state -- this is how most editing errors occur and I don't
> think lisp compares favourably to python here.

EXACTLY!  The issue is that the inconsistent state in lisp is rarely
a legal expression, but an inconsistent state in Python often is.

I'll answer the rest of the post a bit later.  I had an idea I want
to think about.
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