June 9, 2003
12:43 a.m.
I'm +0 on finally deprecating the string exceptions. But am -1000 on eliminating implicit instantiation before Py3.0. Right after writing: "In short, implicit instantiation has no advantages other than backwards compatibility ..." I think it would only be fair to add: "If this proposal is adopted, nearly every piece of non-trivial python code that has ever been written would need to be revised or would fail to run. Likewise, most tutorial and book examples would also fail." Raymond Hettinger