[Python-Dev] C AST to Python discussion (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 16 10:55:42 CET 2006

Brett Cannon wrote:

If the compiler was hacked on by more people I would agree with this. But few people do

This has the potential to be a self-perpetuating situation. There may be few people hacking on it now, but more people may want to in the future. Those people may look at the funky coding style and get discouraged, so there remains only few people working on it, thus apparently justifying the decision to keep the funky coding style.

Whereas if there weren't any funky coding style in the first place, more potential compiler hackers might be encouraged to have a go.

Also I'm still wondering why we're going to all this effort to build a whole new AST and compiler structure if the purpose isn't to avoid all this transformation between different representations.

Greg

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