[pypy-dev] CLI code generation

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Antonio Cuni wrote:
> Niklaus Haldimann wrote:
> 
>> I'm the guy who's working a bit on the Smalltalk backend at the moment.
>> I'm very interested to see how your CLI backend progresses! Ideally, all
>> high-level backends (those based on the ootypesystem) should be able to
>> share some code and concepts. I haven't yet put much thought into this
>> while working on gensqueak, though. But if you see ways to share some
>> abstractions between gencli and gensqueak, you're very welcome to share
>> your ideas or refactor code. I will also watch what you are doing to
>> look for opportunities to unify things.
> 
> 
> I agree, it would be nice to share code, so that it could be reused for 
> future backends, too.
> I have already taken a look to gensquak (it was my starting-point for 
> writing gencil), but I haven't studied it in deep, also because I don't 
> know smalltalk, so it is not easy to follow the code.
> 
> I will check in my work as soon as I have a svn account, so that you 
> will be able to take a look on it.
> 
> A question about the coding rules: must the translator package be 
> written in rpython? I've seen a lot of yield statements, so I think it's 
> not the case: why?

The translator does definitively not have to be written in rpython. In 
fact it would be quite hard to do so :-). The translator does not need 
to be translated itself (although that would be cool sometimes :-).

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich