2011/12/13 Timothy Baldridge <[email protected]>: > For some time now, I've been working on my Clojure/pypy > implementation. However, I'm starting to wish I had a few Clojure > facilities while writing my rpython clojure interpreter. Basically I > would love to have macros, protocols, symbol resolution, and a ton of > other little features for helping with run-time code generation and > the like. > So this is when I started thinking about generating python code from > Clojure source. That is, in Python we have a AST, and in Clojure we > can parse LISP lists and convert them to AST constructs. This is when > I started to realize where Python falls short of the flexability of > Clojure in a few key areas: > 1) multiline closures (lambdas with more than one statement)2) IfExpr > with multiline bodies. > I tried working with the ast module in Python 2.7...and it's horribly > restricted. I found a old lib from PEAK that does what I want > (BytecodeAssembler) but it's fairly old, and no longer supported. So > this is when I thought of the ast in /pypy/interpreter/astcompiler/ > Does the pypy interpreter support non-standard constructs like IfExpr > with a multiline body? And if not, could it be adapted to support > this?
No and naturally yes. > I'd rather not drop all the way to emitting Python bytecode... Uh, so what are you doing with the Python AST then? -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
