Kay Schluehr wrote:
> Brett Cannon schrieb:
>> In other words, I wouldn't count on this ever happening. =) The best
>> you could do is try to propose some direct mechanism for adding
>> support to the eval loop to dispatch to some function for unrecognized
>> opcodes, but I wouldn't count on that being accepted either.
>>
>> -Brett
>
> Brett, thanks for the short answer. Although it is negative regarding my
> attempt, it is also important to know which ideas are outlawed and where
> one steps into a no-go area concerning the evolving language standard
> and its main implementation.
To add one thing to Brett's response: making it easier to experiment with the
VM (e.g. to explore static typing options) was one of the motivations behind
the PyPy project [1].
Although given the mention of RPython in your original message I suspect you
already know about that ;)
Cheers,
Nick.
[1]
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/architecture.html#mission-statement
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