Spanish Inquisition?!

[Paul Prescod]

C.Laurence Gonsalves wrote:
> 
> > Thats no real problem. Any 'compiled' version of python, and Viperc is
> > no exception, must have an inbuilt interpreter, and the usual set of
> > builtin functions. This is required even without 'exec' and 'eval', in
> > case the compiler cannot deduce enough to optimise the code. For
> > example:
> >
> >       for i in alist: print i
> >
> > is hard to optimise, since 'i' could be anything.
> 
> Well, you *could* compile it. 

And in fact, JPython *does*!

 Paul Prescod