Kodiologist

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1. 31.▲
   by Kodiologist 4y ago

   I'm not familiar with Jupyter internals, but I think functions would work well for this. Hy allows multi-statement anonymous functions, and you can do stuff like `((fn [] … ))` to define and immediately call the function. One advantage
2. 32.▲
   by Kodiologist 4y ago

   In some other Lisps, yes, but Python has its own idea of how function scoping works that generally isn't what you'd want with `let`. For example, in (let [a 1] (defn foo [] (setv a 2)) (foo) (print
3. 33.▲
   by Kodiologist 4y ago

   Hy has closures. They work just like Python's. (Common Lisp is super cool, though. Perhaps one day Hy will be as cool.)
4. 34.▲
   by Kodiologist 4y ago

   Even with PyPy, or Python libraries that are themselves written in C?
5. 35.▲
   by Kodiologist 4y ago

   It's been implemented, found to be subtly broken, and re-implemented a number of times. Ultimately trying to impose a different model of scoping on top of Python's scoping is living in a state of sin; thus the difficulties. The st
6. 36.▲
   by Kodiologist 4y ago

   I'm not familiar with such a feature, but you can certainly run a Hy program and edit its state in the REPL at the same time, if that suffices.