On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> you're about 10 years late > > The same could be said for hoping that the GIL will be eliminated. > Utterly hopeless. > > Until... there was PyPy. Maybe now it's not so hopeless.
No - structuring by indentation and the global lock are entirely different kettles of fish. The lock is an implementation detail, not part of the language, and barely even perceptible to users; indeed, Jython and IronPython, i assume, don't even have one. Structuring by indentation, on the other hand, is a part of the language, and a very fundamental one, at that. Python without structuring by indentation *is not* python. Which is not to say that it's a bad idea - if it really is scaring off potential converts, then a dumbed-down dialect of python which uses curly brackets and semicolons might be a useful evangelical tool. tom -- 3118110161 Pies -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
