python operational semantics paper

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Nov 10 19:37:19 EST 2013


Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pmmwplck-python-full-monty/
> 
> Abstract
> 
> We present a small-step operational semantics for the Python programming
> language.

I noticed one thing they seem to have missed. They
assume that

    a + b

is equivalent to

    a.__add__(b)

when, as many of us know, it's considerably more
complicated than that.

-- 
Greg



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