[Types-sig] Viper module compiler begun

[Greg Stein]

On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, skaller wrote:
>...
> Note also, the model under investigation does not
> 'compile' from script source, instead, the script
> is executed by the interpreter first, to build the module
> dictionary, and then code is generate to make each of the
> objects found in the module dictionary.
> 
> Because of this approach, a lot of the 'dynamism'
> involved in constructing a module is bypassed -- it is 
> handled in the usual way by the interpreter.

Interesting approach.

Dunno why, but for those that need the dynamism or want to avoid
importing, the Python2C compiler can be used:

  http://www.mudlib.org/~rassilon/p2c/

And it exists today :-)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/