On 4/20/05, Keith J. Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just came across Starkiller: > http://www.python.org/pycon/dc2004/papers/1/paper.pdf
Unfortunately Starkiller will most likely not be released. Michael Salib was under the employ of MIT when he wrote it and therefor does not own the code. When I talked to him at PyCon he said he had started on a rewrite to get around these issues and that releasing it would be possible but would take convincing MIT the ideas have no commercial viability (standard operating procedure there, but would take months minimum and quite a bit of effort). Also, Starkiller makes assumptions that IronPython absolutely cannot (no eval and others more egregious). And now, on the extremely blindingly bright side of things, there is PyPy. It does type inferencing in a rather different way than Starkiller, and is designed for targeting different output formats (CLI!) So the idea is definitely alive and kicking (and now well funded by the European Union). As for why I'm so negative about Starkiller's application; blame Brett Cannon. He gave a good presentation on why type inferencing is very hard and doesn't gain much in Python without making changes to the language itself. _______________________________________________ users-ironpython.com mailing list users-ironpython.com@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
