12 Sep
2008
12 Sep
'08
7:08 a.m.
Hey Cliff, I think the only way to move forward in this discussion is if you could write a complete parser for the variant of Python that you'd like to see. I expect that you'll say "but I don't know enough about parser technology to do so" -- but then my response is "then you don't know to understand the difficulty of the task, so shut up." If you want to continue this discussion you'll have to prove that it is possible. That in turn will force you to think about many of the details that you're currently brushing away as irrelevant -- and you'll find that they are actually highly relevant. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)