[Python-Dev] Stackless Python

[Guido van Rossum]

> Does this mean that the implementation of Stackless 3.0 could be 
> acceptable to integrate into CPython 2.5?  It would be absolutely 
> wonderful to have those capabilities available in the standard 
> distribution!

Let's not get too excited about this possibility.  Before something is
accepted into the language its semantics must be specified exactly and
clearly.  Last time this was proposed, the Stackless semantics were
extremely murky, with lots of implementation-specific exceptions.

Another requirement is that other Python implementations, like Jython
and IronPython (Jim Hugunin's C# port) can also support these
semantics.

Until these conditions are met, Stackless is stuck in the fringe.

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