[ZPT] Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Vote] PEP308 voting began

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:49:21 +0000


Evan Simpson wrote:
> 
> Hmm.  I was thinking along parallel lines about numbers.  Since variable 
> names (and therefore paths) must start with a letter, we could interpret 
> a path starting with a digit as a numeric literal, thus allowing the 
> occasional 'x | python:42' to be written 'x | 42'.

Ack. Bad. Magik alert.

We don't want Perl, people...

Chris