Big picture...

[John D. Bell]

On 04/18/2017 07:03 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
> For future reference...  c code is reasonable.  ....
>

Yeahbut -  it's more complicated to make sure that C code is portable. 
And since you're talking about an environment that is already *not*
Unix-like (i.e., Windows), might as well push the
portability/compatibility issues off onto the maintainers of the
interpreter.



 - John D. Bell