On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 08:18:03AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> That's too narrow a view on the language.

   I narrowed it by purpose for this discussion.

> Surely the built-in types
> (especially those with direct compiler support, like literal
> notations) are part of the language.

   And still I believe they are two different markets, and you cannot trade
features between them. I am sure it would be hard to by space for new
language (in that narrow sense) features by removing methods from the
standard types.

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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