Kay Schluehr wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > "Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I talked to Richard Emslie recently and he told me that the PyPy team > > > works on a mechanism to create CPython-extension modules written in > > > RPython i.e. a statically translateable subset of Python. > > > > Sounds great but is that a whole lot different from pyrex?
I've wondered that as well. > RPython is Python code not a different language. In a sense RPython > consists of a set of rules usual Python has to conform to make complete > type-inference feasible. Here is an overview of those rules. > > http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/coding-guide.html#restricted-python But does that make it "proper Python"? Having, for example, only one type associated with a name (they use the term "variable", though) at any given time makes it more like various statically typed or functional languages, although I can fully understand why you'd want this restriction. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
