From: Linus Sellberg <linse428@...>
Date: 2004-01-21T08:10:00+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Python: my impression v. Perl/Ruby

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> JavaScript - that functions and methods are just variables whose value is a
> Proc (in Ruby terms), and trailing parentheses are an "invoke" operator.  
> But I don't like the resulting merger of namespaces - if an object has
> a method named 'foo', it can't have a member variable named 'foo', etc.

While that might be true of those languages, what do you think of the 
way common lisp solves that problem? Ie, letting each symbol have a 
value cell and a function cell (and a few more for that matter).