Stackless Python and Python 2.x

[Paul Rubin]

Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> > I've seen Guido van Rossum quoted as being against this because it's
> > incompatible with the Java Virtual Machine (as I understood it).
> 
> The other reason is that, by all accounts, if anyone
> other than Christian Tismer tries to do anything with
> the core code, their brain explodes.

I haven't looked at the Stackless code but it's not conceptually that
big a leap.  Standard ML of New Jersey was implemented like that, for
example.