Overloading the tilde operator?

[George Sakkis]

On Feb 2, 12:49 am, James Stroud <jstr... at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > The Python runtime parser is designed to parse Python, not some
> > arbitrary language that someone chooses to implement in Python.
>
> You haven't addressed why the limitation isn't arbitrary.

Indeed, and that's because it is arbitrary. Python has the arbitrary
limitation that it's not Perl (or C, or Lisp or what have you).

George