[pypy-dev] special methods

[Christian Tismer]

On 28.03.2007, at 20:19, Simon Burton wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:54:35 +0200
> Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> This looks good, congrats!
>>
>> I had a different approach in mind which
>> would work without explicitly adding a pass to the
>> annotator, no idea which idea is more practical.
>>
>> What I wanted to do is a tiny patch to flow space
>> that allows to add little plugins for extension.
>> My plugin would intercept things like str(...)
>> during flowing, and rewrite accordingly. This is quite
>> similar to what you did, but does things earlier.
>
> Yes, this is what Richard suggested also, but don't we
> need the annotation ? Otherwise we don't know when to intercept str 
> (...).
>
> That's why I do the pass after an annotation.

Well, tracking the argument passed to str, we know when we have
an instance, and then we do the magic.

ciao - chris