[Python-Dev] Features for Python 2.0

[Guido van Rossum]

> There are a number of crude hacks that might be solved better: the
> 2-argument opcodes, for instance, could posisbly be avoided by abusing the
> proposed 'extended_arg' opcode. And the patch re-uses the binary opcodes as
> augmented-assignment opcodes, merely because those #defines were already
> available in both ceval.c and compile.c: this would 'break' if we wanted to
> incorporate a new operator in augmented-assignment without adding a new
> 'normal' opcode for that operator.
> 
> I'm still working on the PEP, really :) It's just a pretty long one, trying
> to explain all the intricate details and the simple elegance of the solution
> <wink>. Perhaps it'll inspire some discussion in the details of the patch,
> too.

Suggestion: write the VM spec first, and check that in when you're
done.  I bet that writing down the VM spec will clarify a lot, since
it will specify the semantics (the syntax we all know).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://dinsdale.python.org/~guido/)