22 Sep
1999
22 Sep
'99
11:26 a.m.
[Guido van Rossum]
If I remember well, the only destructors not called would be __del__ methods, since the dependencies between to-be-deleted instances are unknown to the collector. Regular (C-level) destructors would of course be called.
Seems to me that the dependencies among to-be-deleted arbitrary C objects are equally unknown to the collector. Assuming there's a fundamental difference between objects implemented in Python and objects implemented in C seems shaky on the face of it. Or if it's not just a convenient assumption, on what is it based? and-what-about-objects-implemented-in-fortran<wink>?-ly y'rs - tim