[Python-Dev] Why Foo is better than Baz

[Guido van Rossum]

> 	Should I make a point of looking at what using the Spencer
> engine would entail?  It might not be too difficult (an evening or
> two, maybe?) to write a re.py that sat on top of the Spencer code;
> that would at least let us do some benchmarking.

Surely this would be more helpful than weeks of specilative emails --
go for it!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)