When I was last in the USA, I met Alessandro Warth, who now works for the Viewpoints Research Institute and whose Phd thesis which you can get on this page: http://www.tinlizzie.org/~awarth/ is about experiments in computer languages to do the sorts of things that you are interested in. He had a neat implementation of something he called 'worlds' to show off, and gave a talk about it. It's chapter 4 of his thesis.
It was neat, but I got the distinct impression that the price he was paying for having unlimited cheap undo was that it was going to be quite difficult when users in different worlds, all of whom 'sprouted' from a common, but very distant ancestor and who didn't sprout from each other wanted to share information. Many other people in the room had pressing needs for such things now, and some of them were interested in PyPy. They concluded that what they would really like is a programming language which multiple heaps -- in the sense of chunks of memory that you get when you malloc -- guaranteed to be separate from each other. I couldn't tell them how hard this would be to implement in PyPy. Aside from needing to write a custom garbage collector, what else would be needed? Laura _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
