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[Kragen Sitaker]

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry at attbi.com> writes:
> it sees 'a*c' and asks it own dict 'do we know a?' if so it access dict['a']
> and returns its value.  Looking at your example you seem to be implementing a
> symbolic calculator.  Most implementations I have seen involve writing a small
> language with interpreter.

It's a shame that this is necessary, since we already have a perfectly
good language with an interpreter already present.