Re: [Python-Dev] IronPython and AST branch

2006-09-21 Thread Nick Coghlan
Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 9/17/06, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One of the biggest issues I have with the current AST is that I don't >> believe >> it really gets the "slice" and "extended slice" terminology correct >> (it uses >> 'extended slice' to refer to multi-dimensional in

Re: [Python-Dev] IronPython and AST branch

2006-09-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 9/17/06, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the biggest issues I have with the current AST is that I don't believe > it really gets the "slice" and "extended slice" terminology correct (it uses > 'extended slice' to refer to multi-dimensional indexing, but the normal > meaning of t

Re: [Python-Dev] IronPython and AST branch

2006-09-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
Brett Cannon wrote: > As for making the AST branch itself more of a standard, I have talked to > Jeremy Hylton about that and he didn't like the idea, at least for now. > The reasons for keeping it as "experimental" in terms of exposure at the > Python level is that we do not want to lock ourse

Re: [Python-Dev] IronPython and AST branch

2006-09-16 Thread Brett Cannon
On 9/13/06, Sanghyeon Seo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CPython 2.5, which will be released Real Soon Now, is the firstversion to ship with new "AST branch", which have been in developmentfor a long time.AST branch uses ASDL, Abstract Syntax Description Language http://asdl.sourceforge.net/ to describ

[Python-Dev] IronPython and AST branch

2006-09-15 Thread Sanghyeon Seo
CPython 2.5, which will be released Real Soon Now, is the first version to ship with new "AST branch", which have been in development for a long time. AST branch uses ASDL, Abstract Syntax Description Language http://asdl.sourceforge.net/ to describe Abstract Syntax Tree data structure used by CPy