Extending Python Syntax with @

John Roth newsgroups at jhrothjr.com
Fri Mar 12 07:07:09 EST 2004


"Peter Hickman" <peter at semantico.com> wrote in message
news:405187fd$0$2803$afc38c87 at news.easynet.co.uk...
> Cameron Laird wrote:
> > Forth.  Lisp.  Tcl.
>
> I was thinking of even less than that. Just define a few flow control
> things and get everything out of the objects. I expect it would look
> either like lisp or smalltalk.
>
> There would only be one built in datatype, the message, and all the
> objects would chuck messages around. Thus the language as such would
> have a very limited syntax.
>
> load Object.class;
> load Stream.class;
>
> x = new Object;
> s = new Stream;
>
> s.print x.to_string;
>
> So we have declare variables, load classes and pass messages.'

Have you looked at Io?

John Roth





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