Indentation and optional delimiters

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Tue Feb 26 12:27:13 EST 2008


castiro... at gmail.com:
> It's Unpythonic to compile a machine instruction out of a script.  But
> maybe in the right situations, with the right constraints on a
> function, certain chunks could be native, almost like a mini-
> compilation.  How much machine instruction do you want to support?

This language is meant for newbies, or for very quick scripts, or for
less bug-prone code, so optimizations are just a way to avoid such
programs run 5 times slower than Ruby ones ;-)

Bye,
bearophile



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