folks, hi, although i know the answer to this question, i'm having difficulty explaining it, to a user on the pyjamas list. i was therefore wondering if somebody could also provide an answer, on this list, to which i can refer the user.
to make it clear: the user is confused as to why the pyjamas compiler (which strictly speaking isn't actually a compiler it's a "language translator", translating from one dynamic language into another dynamic language, feature-for-feature, concept-for-concept) is _not_ making any effort to help or advise the user at *COMPILE TIME* when they make the mistake of trying to import a module that does not exist. they are confused as to why they have to go to all the trouble of executing the [translated] javascript code in a web browser engine, where web browser engines are known to be a complete pain as far as debugging is concerned, just to find out that they made a mistake in mis-naming an import module. in other words, they are confusing the concept of "python as a dynamic language" with the concept of "compiler in the traditional static- language-such-as-c-or-c++ sense". i've tried explaining that the answer is because this has absolutely ****-all to do with pyjamas, and has everything to do with the http://python.org programming language, but i'm not getting through to them. if someone could perhaps explain this (in a different way from me), in the context of "python the programming language" and "python the http://python.org interpreter", i.e. having absolutely nothing to do with pyjamas, i would be most grateful, and it would benefit that user's understanding of python. many thanks, l. ref: http://groups.google.com/group/pyjamas-dev/browse_thread/thread/64cf948082bfec52?hl=en_US -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
