"Diez B. Roggisch" <d...@n...m.web.de> wrote: > Getting a depression because of a compiler is a bit strong... > > However, yes, bytecode is similar to assembler, and in that respect > higher-level control-structures are created using (conditional) jumps. > > The same is true for other bytecode-languages, see here for the JVM: > > http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/second_edition/html/Overview.doc.html#6493
This is right. It is my opinion that it is not possible to make a useful machine, virtual or real, which executes instructions sequentially, if the instruction set does not contain a conditional jump of some sort. I have tried doing it using conditional calls, and it fails on the equivalent of the first if ..., elif ... you try to write. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
