[Types-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] Revive the types sig?

Paul Prescod paulp@ActiveState.com
Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:00:46 -0800


Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Right!  It would be nice to kill two birds with one stone though.  We
> could generate an alternate parser for Python and have it generate the
> same AST, decorated with type information.  Even if the type
> experiment doesn't work out, the alternate parser might be useful.

I would love to see this for a variety of reasons. I have bandwidth to
generate types-sig patches for a compiler but not to write the compiler
from scratch, though. :( Anyone else interested?

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    Programming the way
    Guido
    indented it.
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