Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Michael Hudson]

Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmx.net> writes:

> > Requiring declarations of all variables would be a HUGE change to
> > Python, IMHO.
> 
> Sure and I'm in no way arguing for such a change (and neither Paul
> Foley who, unlike me, considers implicit declaration a major
> flaw). I just don't understand why it would "unfeasible
> syntactically" -- *syntactically* it seems quite unproblematic to
> me.

Well, maybe I should have been more clear than just "syntactically" --
but you do understand what I mean, no?  I don't think you can
distingusish establishment and mutation of bindings in Python without
significant damage to the "feel" of the language.

Cheers,
M.

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