On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:43 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> > If we had some sort of easy to use standard library support for
> > transpiling code, then your advice could actually be practical and not
> > just dismissive. "Pft, if you don't like it, write your own language" is
> > not exactly practical for most people. Even if a transpiler is a tad
> > simpler than writing an entire interpreter or compiler, it's still a new
> > language.
>
> ... would be best done with stdlib support, yes. I think import hooks
> can do everything that's needed, but I've never actually done it.
> Normally I'd just use a simple source-to-source transformation before
> execution, and usually I do things that aren't ever going to show up
> (string literals aside), so I don't need it to be very smart.
>

Already done (with a different keyword):

https://aroberge.github.io/ideas/docs/html/nobreak.html

André Roberge


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