In article <mailman.3830.1345962128.4697.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Evan Driscoll <drisc...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > > Third, and more wackily, you could technically create a C implementation > > that works like Python, where it stores variables (whose addresses aren't > > taken) in a dict keyed by name, and generates code that on a variable access > > looks up the value by accessing that dict using the name of the variable. > > That would be a reasonable way to build a C interactive interpreter. Except that lots of C and C++ programs assume they know how data structures are laid out and can index forward and backward over them in ways which the language does not promise work (but are, none the less, useful). Say, the sort of thinks you might use python's struct module for. On the other hand, there is certainly a big subset of C that you could implement that way. But it would only be useful as a simple instructional tool. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
