If anyone wants to chime in with extra stuff or questions, by all means go for it. We should flesh this out, take a look at the result, and then deal with the issues.
Things we did wrong
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* Started far too late (Admin, Dan)
* Involved too few people (Admin, Dan/Leo)
* Code in repository is near-impossible to follow (Source, Leo)
* There are no docs to speak of in the repository for the code that was written (Source, Leo)
Things we did right
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* Didn't put hacks into parrot's design for the contest
* Added in features to Parrot for Python that we did really need (slices, for example)
Things we need to fix ===================== * Exceptions * MMD with right-default needs fixing
Stuff we need to address
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* Namespace issues for Python builtins
* Better lexical handling
* OrderedHash PMC is far too slow
* Need to work out parameter passing a bit more
* Redo the converter into pasm/PIR, so we can load python bytecode just like parrot bytecode
* How to do objects and classes in parrot's object scheme
What we got out of it ===================== * The start of slices * A good shakedown of parts of parrot * A collection of useful builtin functions * Templates for writing parrot subs in C * Bignum support, to an extent. (GMP-dependent right now)
Plan Bs
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* This'd be better done with a python parser implementation, rather than a bytecode translator. Optimization is a lot better
* The Python standard builtin stuff needs to be modularized
General notes
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For Dan's converter, at least, Parrot mapped pretty well to Python. It needs finishing, and a lot of optimization. (There's no analysis of the code, which could be done)
MMD for Python PMCs would make a difference, and we should make sure it happens.
The Python standard library should be loadable, rather than builtin. Taking a page from the VMS book, it *should* be required for Parrot to build. This'll make sure that the library's built, tested, and available for anything but a truly minimalist release.
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Dan
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