Typed Python?
Michele Simionato
michele.simionato at gmail.com
Sat Jul 10 07:00:09 EDT 2004
"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson at bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:<5D6Hc.84051$sj4.11073 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> Paul Prescod:
>
> > ... It also meant that we didn't have to display
> > the parentheses in the underlying s-expressions: we could show
> > structure by indentation. By this means we made the language look
> > a lot less threatening."
>
> Every sufficiently advanced LISP application will eventually reimplement
> Python.
>
> Neil
This is also true for Scheme:
http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html
SRFI-49: Indentation-sensitive syntax
Indentation will rule the world! :)
(even if I must confess that secretely I am not yet convinced of the
virtues of indentation and I will estimate advantages/disadvantages to
be 1:1)
Michele Simionato
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