The argument properties are ordered from easiest to hardest. The
harder the arg, the more complicated that code that must be generated
to return it from getChildren() and/or getChildNodes(). The old
calculation routine was bogus, because it always set hardest_arg to
the hardness of the last argument. Now use max() to always set it to
the hardness of the hardest argument.
Add support for floor division (// and //=)
The implementation of getChildren() and getChildNodes() is intended to
be faster, because it avoids calling flatten() on every return value.
But it's not clear that it is a lot faster, because constructing a
tuple with just the right values ends up being slow. (Too many
attribute lookups probably.)
The ast.txt file is much more complicated, with funny characters at
the ends of names (*, &, !) to indicate the types of each child node.
The astgen script is also much more complex, making me wonder if it's
still useful.
Jeremy Hylton