Quoth Guido van Rossum: [...]
I've never considered the two alternative raise syntaxes as a wart in the language that's important enough to fix. The predicted migration pain seems excessive compared to the importance of the improvement.
Gotcha. And, in case there's any doubt, I certainly agree that such an objection is more than adequate reason to reject a PEP, and that I haven't adequately met the objection (yet... he said hopefully).
The only case I'm willing to impose excessive migration pain to fix a problem is when the problem is *really* unacceptable in the long run. I've decided that's the case for int division, for the difference between int and long, and for new-style vs. classic classes.
I don't see raise C vs. raise C() to be in the same category.
I entirely agree that it isn't. -- Steven Taschuk staschuk@telusplanet.net "Telekinesis would be worth patenting." -- James Gleick