[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus? (original) (raw)

Paul Prescod paul@prescod.net
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:04:33 -0800

Jeff Epler wrote:

... Exactly. Why spend all this time and effort complicating the Python parser and compiler, only to find that all real-world programs just instead implement the feature inside a function call?

Nobody said to reimplement it. I've said on several occasions that there should be a runtime version.

Paul Prescod