Guido van Rossum wrote: > I'm more concerned about the choice of AST data structure and how it > affects IronPython, PyPy, Jython and possible other Python > implementations. I'd like to keep both the AST and the bytecode spec > out of the language spec,
Well, it wouldn't be any less portable than bytecode hacking, and could potentially be made more portable. A standard non-text representation of Python code seems like a useful thing to have, even if it's implemented quite separately from the main compiler. We're actually part way there already, with the internal AST <--> python AST transformation. The other implementations would just need to provide their own versions of that transformation. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
