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Re:Why Lisp? by PuercoPop on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:27PM (#9508038)
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

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Re:Why Lisp? by Foxboron on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:32PM (#9508086)
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...

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Re:Why Lisp? by PuercoPop on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:55PM (#9508249)
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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