On 9/20/05, John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > The real problem is that you can ditch most extension modules. 8-( > [...] > > *Is* that a showstopper for Python 3.0, though?
Who knows. I bet Guido doesn't even know how much breakage he is going to want to push. Some people have rather strongly pointed out (usually after I have proposed something), breaking stuff without a good reason is not worth the added level of breakage for when people try to update code to Python 3.0. Completely changing how garbage collection works is not exactly a minor thing and there is the possibility it won't pan out. It would really suck for everyone to have to learn an entirely new way of handling garbage collection and have there not be a perk for doing so, especially since this kind of change will not be directly visible to the language itself. -Brett _______________________________________________ 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
