Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Michael Hudson]

Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmx.net> writes:

> Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:
> 
> > Paul Foley <see at below.invalid> writes:
> > 
> > > [It should do that for lexical variables, too...conflating binding and
> > > assignment the way Python does is a major design error, but it's too
> > > late to fix it now]
> > 
> > I'm unconvinced about the "major"... but anyway: how would *you* do
> 
> So am I, but...
> 
> > it?  It seems unfeasible syntactically, for starters.
> > 
> 
> ... what's wrong with e.g:
> 
> def bar():
>    # declares locals, similar to ``global``
>    var a,b,c = 3
>    x = 3 # error
>    a = 4 # OK
> 
> or 
> 
> 
> def bar():
>    let x=3, y=4:
>      print x, y # OK
>    x, y # ERROR
> 
> ?

Requiring declarations of all variables would be a HUGE change to
Python, IMHO.

Cheers,
M.

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