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| Date | 2012-02-03 13:51 +1100 |
| Subject | Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) |
| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
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On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:53 AM, andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote: > Mm I don't think it's what the OP is asking (unless I misunderstood...). > I think he wants to compile some syntax TO Python. > But I don't really see why you would something like this (if not for fun). > > Then how are you going to maintain the code? Maintain the compiled > code or the source? And proving that your translator is always correct > I think it's quite a hard task too... There's two similar concepts here. 1) Skeleton codegens. You do up some kind of template, run it through a program, and get a ready-to-fill-in code structure. In this case, you don't care so much about the translator's quality (if there's bugs/limitations, you fix 'em after codegenning), and will maintain the compiled code. 2) Compilation to Python. You write your program in some other language, run it through a program, and get executable code out of it. You want the translator to be perfect (so that you don't have to edit the resulting code), and will maintain the original source. I think the OP is looking for #2. I've used that sort of technique a number of times (not with Python specifically, but with other languages that lack certain handy features); usually the source is trivially translateable into the output, with 99% of syntax identical (for instance, one oft-wanted feature is a C-like #include - I've written .php.m4 files that get processed through M4 to become PHP files). ChrisA
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Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-02-02 12:12 -0500
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Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) "bruno.desthuilliers@gmail.com" <bruno.desthuilliers@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 04:03 -0800
Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-02-02 22:53 +0000
Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-02-02 18:19 -0700
Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> - 2012-02-03 11:42 +0100
Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-02-06 19:52 -0800
Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 13:51 +1100
Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Nathan Rice <nathan.alexander.rice@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 09:08 -0500
Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-02-03 11:20 -0500
Re: SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 17:24 +0000
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