[nemoniac]

> The same is not true, AFAIK, with Common Lisp - being a lisp1 and having a stronger lexical scope than python does.

Common Lisp is a Lisp2.

[beagle3]

Thanks for the correction, indeed, I meant lisp2 even though I typed lisp1;

It makes it easier to compile than a lisp1 (to which Python is closer), because the standard call form s-expression can be bound early.