Niklaus Haldimann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/03/2006 10:35:44: > Hi Ben > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does the ootypesystem has high level representations of lists and dicts > > yet? Would that perhaps be a good thing for me to try to implement as a > > way of helping out? > > No, it doesn't have them, yet. But the general idea is to delegate > completely to the host language here, ie represent RPython lists and > dicts with corresponding collections from the host language. There will > be nothing like the rdict and rlist implementations that the > lltypesystem uses. > > I'm not too sure how specifically this delegation should be done (maybe > Samuele can say something about it), this is one of the last open issues > for the ootypesystem. But I'm planning to look into this a bit before > the end of the week and make e.g. at least tuples work for ootypes and > the Squeak backend. As I will have much less time for PyPy after this > week, maybe you can then take over and look into dicts and lists for > ootype? I'm not sure how realistic it is to expect you to start from > scratch here without any groundwork already done for ootype collections. >
Thanks Nik. At most I only have a few hours a week to spend on PyPy, so I am looking for something relatively easy to get going on. I'll leave the lists and dicts to you then, if you already have a idea of how you are going to do it. Cheers, Ben > Cheers > Nik > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
