On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:02 PM, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > Anyway, what I'm saying is, trying to implement a language is also a good > way of learning it, especially of finding out how it works.
Same goes for a lot of things. Want to know how Windows ticks? Try reimplementing it - or read the comments left behind by people who've done that, by browsing the Wine sources. There have been times when I've been trying to figure out how to use a particular Windows API function or window message, and couldn't understand some edge case based solely on the docs, so I dug into the Wine source code, found how they did it (and in at least one case, found a comment stating that observed behaviour differed from the docs!), and was able to deploy to Windows on that basis. I'm sure implementing Python is a lot more fun than reimplementing Windows APIs! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
