Isaac Gouy wrote: [...] > I think it would be silly to dispute whether or not programs that have > import psyco; psyco.bind are Python programs. > > I'm not sure it would be equally silly to dispute whether or not > programs with type declarations have moved away from being Python > programs.
i don't have any horse in this race (although i would like the standard implementation to be as fast as possible), but it may be worth mentioning that annotations on parameters are available (python 2.6 and 3.0). those, along with abcs (same versions) suggests someone, somewhere, might be wondering about how to introduce optional type declarations in python one day... it would also be nice if pypy could actually produce a final, compliant, fully featured implementation. that (via llvm?) may be the best way to introduce the kind of adaptive optimisations that java has made so much mileage from. but i'm just stabbing in the dark - their exact status is a bit opaque to me. andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
