Kay Schluehr wrote: > Brett Cannon schrieb: >> In other words, I wouldn't count on this ever happening. =) The best >> you could do is try to propose some direct mechanism for adding >> support to the eval loop to dispatch to some function for unrecognized >> opcodes, but I wouldn't count on that being accepted either. >> >> -Brett > > Brett, thanks for the short answer. Although it is negative regarding my > attempt, it is also important to know which ideas are outlawed and where > one steps into a no-go area concerning the evolving language standard > and its main implementation.
To add one thing to Brett's response: making it easier to experiment with the VM (e.g. to explore static typing options) was one of the motivations behind the PyPy project [1]. Although given the mention of RPython in your original message I suspect you already know about that ;) Cheers, Nick. [1] http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/architecture.html#mission-statement -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
