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[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus?

Paul Prescod paul@prescod.net
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:04:33 -0800 
Jeff Epler wrote:
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>...
> 
> Exactly.  Why spend all this time and effort complicating the Python
> parser and compiler, only to find that all real-world programs just
> instead implement the feature inside a function call?

Nobody said to reimplement it. I've said on several occasions that there
should be a runtime version.

 Paul Prescod