Getting in to metaprogramming

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "Kay Schluehr" <kay.schluehr at gmx.net> wrote:


> 
> I just noticed that corepy 1.0 [1] has been released. Corepy is an
> embedded DSL for synthesizing machine code from chaining Python
> commands. This means it provides objects and exploits control
> structures used to create machine code that can finally be executed
> interactively.
> 
> Let's say you have an ordinary Python function that computes a CRC 32.
> Now you could attempt to translate the function into other Python code
> that expresses a corepy routine. You could create a decorator that
> works as follows
> 
> 1) reads the source of the decorated function
> 2) transforms the source into corepy source and compiles it or
> 3) if 2) fails it just returns the passed code object.
> 
> Kay
> 
> [1] http://www.corepy.org/

Thanks for the link. 
This stuff sounds powerful - I will try to wrap my head around it.

- Hendrik