On 2011-01-05, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > Optimizing a language for the ease of the compiler writer is > like saying, sure, that car is expensive to buy, expensive to > run, doesn't work well, and tends to kill a lot of people, but > it took less time to design!
A simple to parse syntax has non-trivial benefits. It makes a macro system feasible. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list