Re: Possible to write compiler to Java VM? (I volunteer to summarize)

anicolao@cgl.UWaterloo.CA (Alex Nicolaou)
25 Jan 1996 15:08:20 -0500

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From: anicolao@cgl.UWaterloo.CA (Alex Nicolaou)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.compilers
Date: 25 Jan 1996 15:08:20 -0500
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: 96-01-037 96-01-063
Keywords: translator

"Peter Seibel" wrote:
: Python: see Perl and Scheme.


Python cannot easily be represented in JVM becuase of the type system
(there basically isn't one in Python; anyone with the correct members
can be passed to a given function, and what is legal might change
based on decisions made in the function, so it can't be type-checked).
In addition, the fact that classes are first class (i.e. you can add
member functions and variables to classes at run time, and that will
affect already instantiated objects) would be a problem.


alex


P.S. Alex Nicolaou (me) != Alex Nicolau
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