Python Compiling

[Greg Ewing]

> Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> writes:
> 
> Results from one language don't transfer to another. I don't know
> (really) why Lisp compilers work that well, and what restrictions on
> the Lisp language had to be made to make them work well.


I think Lisp compilers work by a combination of help
from optional declarations, and heroic amounts of
type inference.

Also, Python is even more dynamic than Lisp in some
ways -- namespaces can have names added and removed
at run time, built-in operators can be overloaded,
etc. You can hardly rely on *anything* staying the
same from one moment to the next in Python!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg