> I was thinking a little about a Python/Perl VM merge. One problem I imagine > would be difficult to reconcile is the subtle difference in semantics of > various basic types. Consider the various bits of Python's (proposed) > number system that Perl might not have (or want): rationals, automatic > promotion from machine ints to longs, complex numbers. These may not work > well with Perl's semantics. What about exceptions? Do Python and Perl have > similar notions of what exceptional conditions exist? 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. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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