June 9, 2003
6:54 p.m.
Quoth Raymond Hettinger: [...]
Except for conceptual purity, is there any real payoff in terms of performance or capability that would warrant a wholesale revision of working code?
There's also the question (mentioned in the PEP, albeit parenthetically) of how implicit instantiation could work with any future plan to allow new-style exceptions. This point is also being discussed in the thread on c.l.py; shall we adjourn there? -- Steven Taschuk staschuk@telusplanet.net "I may be wrong but I'm positive." -- _Friday_, Robert A. Heinlein