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[Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire?

[Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire? [Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire?Moshe Zadka m@moshez.org
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:10:50 +0300
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Guido van Rossum <guido@zope.com> wrote:

> Actually, this may not be as big a deal as I thought before.  The PVM
> doesn't have a lot of knowledge about types built into its instruction
> set.  It knows a bit about classes, lists, dicts, but not e.g. about
> ints and strings.  The opcodes are mostly very abstract: BINARY_ADD etc.

PUSH "1"
PUSH "2"
BINARY_ADD

In Python that gives "12". In Perl that gives 3.
Unless you suggest a PERL_BINARY_ADD and a PYTHON_BINARY_ADD, I 
don't see how you can around these things.

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