>>>>>> the pyjamas project is taking a slightly different approach to achieve >>>>>> this same goal: beat the stuffing out of the pyjamas compiler, rather >>>>>> than hand-write such large sections of code in pure javascript, and >>>>>> double-run regression tests (once as python, second time converted to >>>>>> javascript under pyv8run, d8 or spidermonkey). >>>>>> >>>>>> anyway, just thought there might be people who would be intrigued (or >>>>>> horrified enough to care what's being done in the name of computer >>>>>> science) by either of these projects. >>>>> I've added pyjamas to the implementations page on the Python Wiki in >>>>> the compilers section: >>>>> >>>>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/implementation >>>> >>>> In what way is pyjamas a python implementation? As far as I know >>>> pyjamas is an application written in python that is capable of >>>> generating javascript code. Does this make it a 'python >>>> implementation'? That would be news to me but I've been wrong many >>>> times before. >>> >>> It converts Python code to Javascript. >> >> The question is whether it converts Python code to JavaScript code with >> the same behavior. I think you're implying that it does, but you left >> it implicit, and I think the point is central to deciding if pyjamas is >> a Python implementation or not, so I thought I'd try to make it explicit. >> >> Does pyjamas convert any Python program into a JavaScript program with >> the same behavior? > > Barring the unimplemented libraries and bugs, yes. If you read the original > post in this thread, you will see that on the roadmap is running the entire > Python regression suite.
Okay, this is true, something I missed. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
