On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Guido van Rossum <guido@zope.com> wrote:
Actually, this may not be as big a deal as I thought before. The PVM doesn't have a lot of knowledge about types built into its instruction set. It knows a bit about classes, lists, dicts, but not e.g. about ints and strings. The opcodes are mostly very abstract: BINARY_ADD etc.
PUSH "1" PUSH "2" BINARY_ADD In Python that gives "12". In Perl that gives 3. Unless you suggest a PERL_BINARY_ADD and a PYTHON_BINARY_ADD, I don't see how you can around these things. -- gpg --keyserver keyserver.pgp.com --recv-keys 46D01BD6 54C4E1FE Secure (inaccessible): 4BD1 7705 EEC0 260A 7F21 4817 C7FC A636 46D0 1BD6 Insecure (accessible): C5A5 A8FA CA39 AB03 10B8 F116 1713 1BCF 54C4 E1FE Learn Python! http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy