On 13 May 2011 16:07, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > ? I think because I've never done truly serious programming in Python or C++ > I haven't developed this total instinctive aversion to calling methods in the > destructor. >
Indeed. After two or three times of having to debug issues related to that, you learn a lesson :-) ... and Python could be even harder than C++, because of the GC that can start running at any time. > > So, for me, it is a completely reasonable thing to do, while for you it > appears as a cardinal sin of terribleness. > Well, not so terrible, but better to avoid if reasonably possible. >Hence our difficulties in communicating, you are shocked that "Barry kills >babies for their meat", while Barry doesn't understand why you are so upset >that "Barry has an easy source of protein." > Other entry for http://twitter.com/#!/shitbsmithsays !!! -- Lisandro Dalcin --------------- CIMEC (INTEC/CONICET-UNL) Predio CONICET-Santa Fe Colectora RN 168 Km 472, Paraje El Pozo 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina Tel: +54-342-4511594 (ext 1011) Tel/Fax: +54-342-4511169
