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PuercoPop on May 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Lisp?

Just to expand on your comment. One can write the equivalent code for a for in python[0] but one can't make python rewrite itself.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/PuercoPop/9d192f94f88074d06625

Foxboron on May 7, 2015 [–]

cough I'd love to say it's possible, but with a few modifications.

https://github.com/hylang/hy

http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/language/api.html?highlight...

PuercoPop on May 7, 2015 | [–]

It is possible with macropy as well. But both hylang and macropy depend on the load module hook to run the transformation iirc. So the transformation don't work the the __main__ module.

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