[Python-Dev] Policy for making changes to the AST

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/4/2011 4:05 PM, Dino Viehland wrote:

> "reduce" to the core DLR nodes on-demand).  We already do a huge amount of
> manipulation of those ASTs from optimizations (constant folding being the primary
> one) to re-writing them completely for things like generators or sys.settrace support and
> other optimizations like runtime optimized fast exception support.  But our ASTs are

I meant to add that doing optimization (and other manipulations) with 
AST would also make it easier to borrow from other implementations.

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Terry Jan Reedy