Comments comparing definitions.

livesort_hssp/livesort.lissp

@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 (hissp.basic.._macro_.prelude)
 
-
+;; Lissp's class definition syntax is somewhat unlike Python's class
+;; definition syntax even though it expresses the same model.  Python
+;; will nearly never imply a dict from a sequence of uncoupled pairs
+;; but this is a common way to express an association list in lisps.
+;; It's interesting that `deftype` is a macro around a `type` call in
+;; its rarely used form with three arguments.  Quoting the
+;; member/method (it does not distinguist) and class names for you in
+;; the macro makes it read a little bit more like Python than it would
+;; if you had to quote them.
 (deftype Livesort ()
   __init__
   (lambda (self

livesort_hy/livesort.hy

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 (import [bisect [bisect]])
 
+;; Hy class definitions look a lot like Python class definitions.
+;; Much moreso now.  If one is not careful, it's easy to install an
+;; older version of Hy and the class definition syntax has changed
+;; over time.  Hopefully this 1.0a syntax is now stable.
 (defclass Livesort []
   (defn __init__ [self
                   next-line ; iterable function yielding lines of text
@@ -48,8 +52,7 @@ will update the display."
       (.sortline self line)
       (.print self (.display self)))))
 
-(defmain
-  ()
+(defmain []
   (import sys os)
   (.livesort
     (Livesort sys.stdin