On Sun, February 4, 2007 9:45 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Christian Seberino wrote:
>> I'm not sure what you mean by this.  The Python interpreter/parser is an
>> 'automated tool' and it is able to figure out the exact meaning of
>> Python
>> code.
>
> Yes, but it requires a full parse to figure it out.  Regex's are
> insufficient.
>
> Lisp, for example, does not require the parse.  The parentheses carry
> the full semantic level.
>
> -a

I think you just gave the first good argument I've seen for why Pythonic
XHTML won't meet all needs.  Yes I agree some people will require huge XML
files to begin being interpreted before the full parse.  Now I'm liking
S-expressions again.

cs


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