----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:46 AM Subject: Re: approaching python
> Klass-jan wrote: > > Maybe it's not possible to have the eval instruction right away, in the new > > Python->IMC code generator. As long as this command is not used in the code > > for this new code generator, this can just be skipped, and it may be > > implemented in IMC by hand, and inserted into the new code generator > > (Python->IMC, written in IMC) > > Well, is the Python parser written in Python? If so, then we have a > bootstrapping problem... but since there is already a good bootstrap > program (the python executable), there's no problem at all. > I'm sorry, but I can't see this boostrapping problem. Do I overlook something? Could you explain? It isn't necessary to implement the complete language, is it? As long as the features needed to write the compiler are implemented, it's no problem (i.e. halfbootstrapping). > Luke > > > Klaas-jan >
