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Id: 4540
Status: resolved
Worked: 5 min
Priority: 0/
Queue: SuperPython
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Owner: MJD [...] cpan.org
Requestors: davidm.perl [...] math2.org
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  Mon Dec 01 21:32:23 2003 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: documentation is misleading
The POD documentation suggests that this module is a serious implementation of Python in Perl, and this is what I first believed. But upon reading the source code, it is found to be a joke. Mitchell (http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/SuperPython) suggested as a resolution that this module be put instead under Acme::. I've noticed this problem under WinXP using Perl 5.8.2 with threading enabled, but I expect the problem also exists under all OSs and version of Perl :)
  Sun Dec 07 08:33:16 2003 mjd [...] plover.com - Correspondence added
To: bug-SuperPython [...] rt.cpan.org
CC: mjd [...] plover.com
Subject: Re: [cpan #4540] documentation is misleading
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:34:14 -0500
From: Mark Jason Dominus <mjd [...] plover.com>
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> The POD documentation suggests that this module is a serious > implementation of Python in Perl, and this is what I first > believed.
I don't think it does suggest that in any way. It refers to "the SuperPython language", and says SuperPython brings to Perl all the benefits of Python's vaunted whitespace-sensitivity, including readability, maintainability, less punctuation, and all that other great crap. In fact, it goes several steps further than Python in this direction. I'm amazed that anyone could conclude from this that the module was "a serious implementation of Python in Perl", but I guess it just goes to show that anything is possible. Moreover, the documentation says: There is no reason why Python itself could not take advantage of the benefits of SuperPython's improved syntax. which should suggest that whatever 'SuperPython' is, it is not Python. Show quoted text
> Mitchell (http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/SuperPython) suggested as a > resolution that this module be put instead under Acme::.
I'm not sure that any resolution is necessary, since I don't perceive a problem. Thanks for your report.
  Sun Dec 07 16:38:23 2003 MJD [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added 5 min
Not a bug.
  Sun Dec 07 16:38:24 2003 MJD [...] cpan.org - Given to MJD
  Sun Dec 07 16:38:24 2003 MJD [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'