On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:36:49AM -0800, sturlamolden wrote regarding Re: Is a "real" C-Python possible?: > > On 12 Des, 12:56, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ah, the 'make' statement.. I liked (and still do) that PEP, I think it > > would have an impact comparable to the decorator syntax sugar, if not > > more. > > I think it is one step closer to Lisp. I believe that it would be > worth considering adding defmacro statement. Any syntax, including if, > else, for, while, class, lambda, try, except, etc. would be > implemented with defmacros. We would only need a minimalistic syntax, > that would bootstrap a full Python syntax on startup. And as for > speed, we all know how Lisp compares to Python. >
Programmable syntax is a very powerful concept. However, python is designed not only to be powerful, but simple, and this change would drastically reduce the simplicity of Python. It would cease to be a good beginner's language. If you want a language with different syntax than python, python has wonderful parsing libraries. Use those instead. My 2?. Cheers, Cliff
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