From: Guido van Rossum Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 16:27:37 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Two small additions to make it identical to the obsolete Frame version. X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2a1~466 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0bd3795d6a0afb2efb77b127d9234c7bbd23ea8f;p=python Two small additions to make it identical to the obsolete Frame version. --- diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref1.tex b/Doc/ref/ref1.tex index d6c23c8294..b611d9c6dc 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref1.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref1.tex @@ -13,11 +13,15 @@ fact you would probably end up implementing quite a different language. On the other hand, if you are using Python and wonder what the precise rules about a particular area of the language are, you should definitely be able to find them here. +If you would like to see a more formal definitition of the language, +maybe you could volunteer your time --- or invent a cloning machine +:-). It is dangerous to add too many implementation details to a language reference document --- the implementation may change, and other implementations of the same language may work differently. On the -other hand, there is currently only one Python implementation, and +other hand, there is currently only one Python implementation in +widespread use (although a second one now exists!), and its particular quirks are sometimes worth being mentioned, especially where the implementation imposes additional limitations. Therefore, you'll find short ``implementation notes'' sprinkled throughout the