Giovanni Bajo wrote: > On gio, 2009-01-22 at 18:42 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: [...] > I miss to understand why many Python developers are so fierce in trying > to push the idea of cross-python compatibility (which is something that > does simply *not* exist in real world for applications) or to warn about > rainy days in the future when this would stop working in CPython. I > would strongly prefer that CPython would settle on (= document) using > reference counting and immediate destruction so that people can stop > making their everyday code more complex with no benefit. You will be > losing no more than an open door that nobody has entered in 20 years, > and people would only benefit from it.
Probably because it's good practice to write for compatibility where possible. Cross-OS compatibility isn't possible in the general case either, but it's still a good goal in the cases where it *is* possible. Given that your sample code will generally work even for implementations where garbage collection is used rather than reference counting I fail to understand why you insist so hard that a more restrictive rule should be implemented. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
