Description
I decided last week to start learning Python, partly becuase of all the good things i've read from hacker-type people and partly becuase it just seems to be a very interesting langauge with lots of features that i find really intersting. (and AFAIK are not present in PHP or Perl in any meaningful way)
So as an exercise, becuase i was reading about Lisp the other nite, i wanted
to write a simple program in Python that would do prefix math list-processing
type stuff. So, for example (+ 5 (- 4 2)) would be parsed
as the mathematical expression 5+(4-2) and return 7
But as i was writing the program, i realized that becuase functions are
handled like variables in python, you could essentially write a processor
that would take (Something n1 n2 n3 ...) and have the Python
code instantiate the class Something and pass into it the arguments
n1, n2, n3, ... and basically you'd be free to have
class Something do anything that you could code in python.
My plans for the code here is to try and keep extending this program by
figuring out how to have variables setup and how to let the input text
define functions dynamically. Also, i'd like have python be able to
dynamically figure out which class to initialize based on the
input keyword, rather than me having to tell it explicitly (in function decode():
if value == "Something": return Something.
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v0.1 - Initial release: Sep 11, 2004
