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Re: Translators, yet once more (Re: PHP fork project- Guile vs Python vs ?)
- To: moshez at math dot huji dot ac dot il, kanderso at bbn dot com
- Subject: Re: Translators, yet once more (Re: PHP fork project- Guile vs Python vs ?)
- From: "Khimenko Victor" <guile at khim dot sch57 dot msk dot ru>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:41:45 +0400 (MSD)
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: MCCME
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10007101528550.15573-100000@sundial>
10-Jul-00 15:31 you wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Ken Anderson wrote:
>> I like the translate into Scheme approach, but won't the guile debugger produce a scheme backtrace rather than a python one?
> Tracebacks aren't part of the language definition. (Exceptions are though,
> but I'm planning to simulate those with continuations, and not rely on whatever mechanism guile develops for exceptions)
Don't to it ! Continuations are REAL slow in guile and Python relies on
exceptions quite heavily.