July 30, 2001
1:12 p.m.
Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:
Let's suppose, for the sake of the design discussion, that we can make the type ontologies of the Perl and Python bytecode match up.
I'm afraid I'll have to side with Jeremy when I say, "What?"
Explained in public reply to Jeremy.
You mentioned regular expressions as an upside for Python, from this 'merger'. Why is that ?
No. I was referring to the fact that we have *already* coopted Perl's regexp design. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller