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Re: (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR)

From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:40:27 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) 
>> > > How Pythonic!
>> > No need for insults Stephen!
>> You're welcome to take insult if you like, but I don't know a higher
>> compliment in language design
> Please tell me you're joking...

While I don't consider Python as the best design by far (the lack of
type system rules it out right away), Elisp's dynamic scoping mixed with
buffer-local and frame-local and terminal-local variables is pretty
horrendous,


        Stefan
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