Maintainability (was Re: Stackless & String-processing)

[Greg Ewing]

Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> 
> Any reason it couldn't be done?

If I remember rightly, Guido's position last time
was that doing it the long-winded way wasn't enough
of a hardship to make it worth adding another language
construct. Not to mention another keyword, which as
we all know would cause the universe to collapse into
a quantum singularity if done prior to Python 2.0.

Greg