Show HN: My book, The Common Lisp Condition System
To what extent is the CL condition system inherently tied to Lisp(s)? Is there anything about it that makes it a natural fit for Lisp but not for other languages?<p>Macros, for example, are a natural fit for Lisp because of the parentheses. It would be difficult to add Lisp-style macros to a language like Python because Python doesn't have Lisp parentheses. In contrast, there's nothing about multiple namespaces that is particularly tied to Lisp. Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp have multiple namespaces, but Scheme doesn't. Python doesn't have them, but it just as easily could.<p>So is the condition system more like macros or more like multiple namespaces?