Re: python operational semantics paper

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From	Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject	Re: python operational semantics paper
Date	Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:37:19 +1300
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Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pmmwplck-python-full-monty/
> 
> Abstract
> 
> We present a small-step operational semantics for the Python programming
> language.

I noticed one thing they seem to have missed. They
assume that

    a + b

is equivalent to

    a.__add__(b)

when, as many of us know, it's considerably more
complicated than that.

-- 
Greg

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python operational semantics paper Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-09 10:35 -0800
  Re: python operational semantics paper Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-11-10 05:42 -0500
  Re: python operational semantics paper Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-11-11 13:37 +1300

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