alt Hacker NewsNop, Python is not full object. Not even Ruby is fully object, try `if.class` for example. Self, Smalltalk, Lisp, and Io are fully object in that sense. But none as far as I know can handle something like `(.class`.
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zephen • today at 8:52 AM
You obviously realize that different languages have different syntactic requirements, yet you are willing to cut one language a break when its minimal syntactical elements aren't objects, and refuse to cut other languages a break because they have a few more syntactical elements?
Aren't you mixing up syntax and the concepts it expresses? Why would (.class have to be a thing? Is space dot class a thing? I don't think this makes sense and it doesn't inform about languages "being fully object". Such syntax is merely for producing an AST and that alone doesn't mean "object" or "not object". It could just as well be all kinds of different things, or functions, or stack pushes and pops or something.