"sins" (aka, acknowledged language problems)

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Fri Dec 31 10:47:46 EST 1999


In article <slrn86pejs.9tv.neelk at brick.cswv.com>,
Neel Krishnaswami <neelk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>> 
>> That John could assume otherwise just goes to show that he thinks Python's
>> scheme is complicated because he's still trying to force some other
>> languages' view(s) onto it.  Forcing a bloated square peg into a slimly
>> elegant round hole is indeed a complicated business <wink>.
>
>I think that in light of Viper, John can no longer be said to be
>*trying to use* a different scoping model in Python, because he
>has *succeeded*. :)

I should let the Timbot speak for itself, but I think Tim's point is
that with a different scoping model, it isn't Python any more.
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