Pie-thon state 5 - and final

Below is the last summary of the attempt to implement enough of Python 
to run the Pie-thon benchmarks - within 5 weeks. Four and a half of 
seven programs are running.

Albeit this experiment did fail, it IMHO has brought Parrot a lot 
further. Valuable interals like integer->bigint promotion are vastly 
implemented.

We'll have to sort out, what we will keep in core and what should be 
moved into a Python or maybe a general HLL support library.

But before starting over, we will have to go through some of the issues 
that arise, when HLL borders are crossed. E.g.:

   PyString + PMC  := concat
   PyString % PMC  := sprintf

And there is of course the question, if we should really be "bug"-compatible

 >>> False=42
 >>> if False:
...     print "aha", False
...
aha 42


Have fun,
leo

• Pie-thon state 5 - and final by Leopold Toetsch
• RE: Pie-thon state 5 - and final by Tim Howell
• RE: Pie-thon state 5 - and final by Dan Sugalski
• Re: Pie-thon state 5 - and final by Clark C. Evans
• Re: Pie-thon state 5 - and final by Leopold Toetsch
• Re: Pie-thon state 5 - and final by ssmith
• Re: Pie-thon state 5 - and final by Dan Sugalski