[Python-3000] AST access (WAS: Adaptation vs. Generic Functions)

[Greg Ewing]

Robert Brewer wrote:
> Part of the benefit of the bytecode-hacking is that your expression 
> never has to be in a string.

I'm wondering whether there should be some kind of
"code literal" syntax, where you write a Python
expression and the compiler transforms it as far
as the AST stage, then makes it available to the
program as an AST object.

Or would that be too close to "programmable
syntax" for Guido's liking?

--
Greg