Hi Michal, On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:15:30PM -0400, Michal Wallace wrote:
Pirate is written in python and currently uses the standard compiler package. However, as parrot supports native types, I would like to refactor it so that it can also work with PyPy's type annotation system (and possibly integrate with pypy in other ways)
Interesting, though by no means easy :-) PyPy's type annotation system is not designed at the moment to handle random user code. It can only handle carefully controlled code. From there to a general type annotator for Python, the gap is still large. I may be too deeply buried in the current development work, but at the moment it seems to me that the immediate contribution that PyPy could make to Python-over-Parrot could be different: we could provide the built-in types implementation and standard library modules, which is the necessary complement to the bytecode compiler. Indeed, by tweaking the C code generator, the "standard object space" and the modules could be compiled from PyPy sources to some C code that follows the conventions of Parrot. A bientot, Armin