Optional type checking/pluggable type systems for Python
Dear All I'm a Master's student at Imperial College London currently selecting a Master's thesis subject. I am exploring the possibility of "optional typing" and "pluggable type systems" (Bracha) for Python. Reading around I see that PEP 246 (object adaption) was dropped for "something better". Is this "something better" currently in production for Python 3000 or just a thinking ground. I'd like to know whether there would be any merit in exploring the project or whether this is something that is going to appear as implementation within the next 6 months (the length of my thesis). If you think it is still something worth exploring I'd plan to pick up the idea as a research project and explore implementations, probabaly in CPython or Jython. Any help with this would be great, could you please reply directly to ndunn@ndunn.com as I haven't subscribed to python-dev for a while now. Thanks, Neil Dunn
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006, Neil Dunn wrote:
Any help with this would be great, could you please reply directly to ndunn@ndunn.com as I haven't subscribed to python-dev for a while now.
You should also post this to the python-3000 list; the lists do not all have the same readership. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra
"Neil Dunn" <ndunn@ndunn.com> wrote in message news:f56dda5c0610210713k7c500637w25483e473ed263bb@mail.gmail.com...
Dear All
I'm a Master's student at Imperial College London currently selecting a Master's thesis subject. I am exploring the possibility of "optional typing" and "pluggable type systems" (Bracha) for Python. Reading around I see that PEP 246 (object adaption) was dropped for "something better". Is this "something better" currently in production for Python 3000 or just a thinking ground.
Thinking, as far as I know.
I'd like to know whether there would be any merit in exploring the project or whether this is something that is going to appear as implementation within the next 6 months (the length of my thesis).
If you think it is still something worth exploring I'd plan to pick up the idea as a research project and explore implementations, probabaly in CPython or Jython.
Any help with this would be great, could you please reply directly to ndunn@ndunn.com as I haven't subscribed to python-dev for a while now.
You can follow both python-dev and py3000 lists as newsgroups via news.gmane.org. It also has archives.
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