Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Michael Hudson]

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
it?  It seems unfeasible syntactically, for starters.

Cheers,
M.

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