gideon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the context of a master's thesis I'm currently looking into > Python's operational semantics. Even after extensive searching on the > web, I have not found any formal model of Python. Therefore I am > considering to write one myself. To make a more informed decision, I > would like to ask you:
[...] > Which version of Python is the most interesting? Python 3.0, although > it would be a moving target, seems promising. Because it will simplify > the language in some aspects by ditching backwards compatibility (e.g. > old style classes and coercion), the semantics will be more clean. Why not start with a common subset? Presumably the easiest thing will be to start with a small core of the language and work up anyway. It might turn out that all the interesting work has been done by the time 2.x/3.x makes any difference. -M- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
