A 'Python like' language

[Mark Hahn]

> Is there some inter-operability sought between Prothon and Python?

No, I assumed from day one that the lack of classes meant a fundamental
incompatability.  However, even though I am designing a new language, I have
no desire to re-invent anything for any arbitrary reason, so I chose to
"steal"  everything from Python unless it conflicted with the prototype
paradigm or I or other Pythoners considered the current Python broken.  I am
changing to all of Guido's "regrets" for example.

One example of something I consider broken in Python is the generator scheme
using the def keyword and not allowing nesting of generators.  I just added
docs for my gen keyword today to the Prothon website.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "François Pinard" <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Mark Hahn" <mark at prothon.org>
Cc: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: A 'Python like' language


[Mark Hahn]
> > Yes, this seemed interesting to me too. But when arrived at the sentence
> > "Prothon only allows tabs for indentation" I couldn't continue reading
;-)

> It appears we will be bowing to pressure and switching to spaces.

This might be good news.  Despite a bit curious about prototype-based
languages, I initially stopped reading about Prothon when I saw that it
chose mandatory TABs. `make' is the only tool for which I still give in
such things :-).

Allow me a question.  Is there some inter-operability sought between
Prothon and Python?  That could ease taming communities.  As far as I
understood, so far, these are currently meant as incompatible beasts.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard