The most annoying typo error...

[Marcus Alanen]

On 8 May 2003 21:23:43 -0700, Asun Friere <afriere at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>marcus at infa.abo.fi (Marcus Alanen) wrote in message
news:<slrnbbkd16.1cq.marcus at infa.abo.fi>...
>> The issue is that Python is designed to be a _very_ dynamic language.
>> A lot of times, this is a _strength_, not a weakness. This dynamic
>> nature means [as far as I have understood it] that you can't change
>> the run-time interpreter proper to do something like you suggest.
>Oops!  Looks like I shouldn't have omitted the smiley after all.  What

Well, it's good to have the discussion anyway. Perhaps other readers
will benefit from it.

>I was trying to say was this:  Many different users make many
>different types of typos.     The idea that the language definition or
>any particular implementation should be stuffed around with to
>accomodate anyone's favourite typo is absurd.

Exactly, although the language [syntax] definition could make an
effort in providing suitable purely syntactial mechanisms to notice
typical errors faster at read/compile time.

Regards,
Marcus