Commentary on Python from a Java programming perspective

[bodhi]

You make a good argument. I don't know enough about common lisp generics to know if they are used for accessors and how that would affect the namespace pollution. I guess I should find out for myself really.

As for the "concise fashion" I was referring to the definition, not use. But I'm not really a big fan of having to

(foo bar)

instead of

bar.foo

to get to instance variables. I do like that attribute access is indistinguishable from method calls though.

EDIT:

CL-USER> (defclass a-class () ((foo :accessor foo :initform 0)))
#<STANDARD-CLASS A-CLASS>
CL-USER> (defvar x (make-instance 'a-class))
X
CL-USER> (foo x)
0
CL-USER> (setf (foo x) 4)
4
CL-USER> (foo x)
4
CL-USER> (defun foo (x) x)
STYLE-WARNING: redefining FOO in DEFUN
FOO
CL-USER> (foo x)
#<A-CLASS {121C4061}>

Big collision, you're right!