Terry Reedy wrote: > Nothing about bytecode is part of the language spec. And CPython > bytecode is version specific. If the CPython implementation changed > from a virtual stack machine to a virtual register machine, as was > once discussed, the stack-oriented byte code would be replaced by a > register-oriented byte code or virtual machine language.
Thanks for the clarification. I knew the byte-code changed from version to version, but of course so does the language, so that didn't tell me much. ;) So I assume the language spec is basically the grammar and the Language Reference docs[1]? Or is there something more formal?
Steve
[1] e.g. http://docs.python.org/ref/ref.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
