Fat and happy Pythonistas (was Re: Replacement for keyword'global' good idea? ...)

[Terry Reedy]

"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote in message 
news:11fakjctean9u8a at news.supernews.com...
> http://martinfowler.com/articles/languageWorkbench.html

This clarified your proposal for Python considerably.  So I note that now 
and especially once the AST compiler is completed, you are quite free to 
start a Python AST Extension (PASTE) project quite independently of Guido 
and the PSF developers.  Build an AST-based editor like Fowler described, 
with transient text presentations.  (And pick your preferred GUI for doing 
so.) Or design a system for translating domain-specific languages into 
PyASTs, from whence they can be compiled to bytecode and run.

Terry J. Reedy