Alex Martelli wrote: [snip] > I disagree: compile time is when the compiler is running (for example, > the compiler is the component which diagnoses syntax errors, while other > errors are diagnosed ``at runtime''). [snip]
That thing about syntax errors is news to me. I thought they were caught at runtime, since you can catch them as exceptions, as in: try: prijnt projnt except SyntaxError: print "See, it gets caught" If this happens at compile-time, I'd like to know how. Thanks, -- - Alexandre -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
