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List:       pypy-dev
Subject:    Re: [pypy-dev] Special methods
From:       Carl Friedrich Bolz <cfbolz () gmx ! de>
Date:       2009-12-11 11:44:08
Message-ID: 4B223088.6050808 () gmx ! de
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On 12/11/2009 12:41 PM, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Hakan,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:12:41AM +0100, Hakan Ardo wrote:
>> OK I didn't know. It seems to me that it could be useful more
>> generally... But if you're not interested I'll keep this stuff
>> elsewhere somehow...
> 
> Indeed, the current situation is that we actively don't want to support
> more RPython features if it's not clear what they could be used for in
> writing interpreters.  We are not interested in supporting RPython as a
> general-purpose language, because we don't have the resources to do it
> and because it's not really the goal of the PyPy project.  The goal is
> to give you a good and fast interpreter for full Python.
> 
>> Well this is what python does, i.e str(None) is the string 'None' in
>> python. Rpython is suppsed to be a subset of python isn't it?
> 
> Yes, so in that sense, str(None) returning the string 'None' is the only
> sane result.  What I was complaining about is that it looks pretty
> pointless to add that rule when writing an interpreter for any different
> language.  It might be useful for debugging, though.

It's definitely nicer than getting a segfault.

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich
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