Feb. 25, 2002
10:34 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:27:49PM +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:
I think you go through and remove the "$" signs (probably at the same time you are removing "_") and use a runtime function to do the translation (probably the same function doing the interpolation).
I could not accept any solution that cannot offer anything but this. This kind of interpolation is plain broken.
Exactly. Why spend all this time and effort complicating the Python parser and compiler, only to find that all real-world programs just instead implement the feature inside a function call? Jeff