Kevin Tew wrote:
I've been working on a python compiler also, feel free to take a look,,
svn co http://svn.openfoundry.org/pyparrot languages/python/pyparrot
My current boggle is how to handle the self parameter to method functions.
You can do things like this in python
def foobar( arg1, arg2 ):
print arg1, arg2
class A():
self.__add__ = foobar
aa = A()
print aa + 5
Well, the Python translator has to recognice that "__add__" and such has
a special meaning in CPython. Therefore the getattribute (in that case
of the class - but not only) has to check for such special names and in
that case store the Sub object for "foobar" into the "A" namespace under
the name "__add" - that is Parrot's notation for the thingy.
The rest i.e. calling the sub on the last line, is done by Parrot's MMD
implementation.
Kevin Tew
leo
