Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I think I'm on fairly solid ground to say that a language that is just like C except that it allocates variables in a hash table at runtime, using runtime lookups for variable access, would not satisfy the C89 or C99 standards.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Modern C standards are pretty careful to avoid making any promises about how things are laid out in memory, etc. It wouldn't surprise me much if you could come up with such an implementation that adheres to the strict letter of the standard. It also wouldn't surprise me if that implementation failed to run a large proportion of real C code out there, though... -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
