On 4/24/06, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The recent discussion about the with statement on python-dev reminded me > that at one point we talked about making chained exceptions automatic. > Could someone update PEP3100 to list chained exceptions as one of the > features that needs discussion?
It's not mentioned there now, is it? (If it is, I can't find it so a hint on the line number would be appreciated. :-) IMNSHO this feature (PEP 344) is dead unless someone can find a way around the excessive circular references involving locals that this feature will necessarily cause. (And no, handwaving solutions are not accepted -- you need to understand the cause of the circularities in the proposal and explain a detailed plan for getting rid of them. Relying on GC is unacceptable because of the effect on local variables -- while reference counting is technically a CPython implementation detail, many people have come to rely on the predictable finalization semantics and I don't want to brfeak this wholesale. We had this in early Python versions and it was a big pain.) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
