RE: Prothon on CPython intrepreter? [PROTHON]

"Mark Hahn" <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:51:15 -0700

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:47 PM
> To: Mark Hahn
> Subject: Re: Prothon on CPython intrepreter? [PROTHON]
> 
> 
> Why wouldn't you keep your variant upward compatible with 
> CPython so it 
> could parse Python code and run Python bytecodes? Then you get a much 
> bigger standard library.

How could we do that and still fix all the Python problems?  Things like
separate strings, late eval of default params, etc. would make this
impossible, wouldn't it?