[Python-Dev] some interesting readings (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 05:01:20 CET 2006

Samuele Pedroni wrote:

because I was reminded of them recently, because they may be useful landmarks in the prospective of future discussions, because expanding one's understanding of the problem/solution space of language design is quite a good thing if one is interested in such things...

1) Gilad Bracha. Pluggable Type Systems . OOPSLA04 Workshop on Revival of Dynamic Languages ( http://pico.vub.ac.be/%7Ewdmeuter/RDL04/papers/Bracha.pdf ) As a talk: Pluggable Types, originally given at Aarhus University in March 2003, and repeated since at Berne and elsewhere. ( http://bracha.org/pluggable-types.pdf ) 2) http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ralf/OOHaskell/ state of the art experiment on trying to reconcile object orientation, type inference and as much as possible expressiveness PS: I think 1 is much more relevant than 2 for Python as we know it.

I'd have to agree with that - I didn't actually make it all the way through the second one, but an awful of lot of what I did read seemed to taken up with clever workarounds designed to trick the Haskell type inferencer into letting the authors of the paper do some fairly basic things (like having a heterogeneous collection of subtypes).

There are some fascinating ideas in the first paper, though. It actually had me wondering about the possibilities of PyPy's object spaces, but I don't really know enough about those to determine whether or not such a connection is actually meaningful.

Cheers, Nick.

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