>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Greg> I didn't claim that people would feel compelled to eliminate Greg> all uses of lambda; only that, in those cases where they Greg> *do* feel so compelled, they might not if lambda weren't Greg> such a long word. Sure, I understood that. It's just that my feeling is that lambda can't "just quote a suite", it brings lots of other semantic baggage with it. Anyway, with dynamic scope, we can eliminate lambda, can't we? Just pass the suites as quoted lists of forms, compute the macro expansion, and eval it. So it seems to me that the central issue us scoping, not preventing evaluation of the suites. In Lisp, macros are a way of temporarily enabling certain amounts of dynamic scoping for all variables, without declaring them "special". It is very convenient that they don't evaluate their arguments, but that is syntactic sugar, AFAICT. In other words, it's the same idea as the "collapse" keyword that was proposed, but with different rules about what gets collapsed, when. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com