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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:22:05 +1000
Subject: Re: Re: Objects in Python
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Third, and more wackily, you could technically create a C implementation
> that works like Python, where it stores variables (whose addresses aren't
> taken) in a dict keyed by name, and generates code that on a variable access
> looks up the value by accessing that dict using the name of the variable.

That would be a reasonable way to build a C interactive interpreter.

ChrisA