Josiah Carlson wrote: > 2. Standard for/while loops should not be finalized in a timely fashion, > because testing for the proper methods would necessarily slow down large > amounts of current Python, so should be left to the garbage collector.
I'm not convinced about that. If implemented properly, it could be as simple as testing whether a slot of a type object is populated during processing of the bytecode which causes exit from the loop. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
