From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2004-01-21T08:40:01+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Python: my impression v. Perl/Ruby

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:59:41PM +0100, Linus Sellberg wrote:
> 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).

I think it complicates the elegance of the design; I'm a big believer in
one variable=one value (even if that value is itself multivalued, with
keyed or indexed or otherwise accessed components).

-Mark