[pypy-dev] Re: [pypy-svn] r8078 - pypy/trunk/src/pypy/interpreter

[holger krekel]

Hi Armin, 

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 19:10 +0000, Armin Rigo wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:40:09PM +0100, holger krekel wrote:
> > you'll now see (approximately): 
> >    NameError: global name w_NameError is not defined, but FlowObjSpace 
> >               has no NameError! 
> 
> No, the point is that you'll now see:
> 
>      NameError: global name xyzzy is not defined, but FlowObjSpace
>                 has no NameError!
> 
> where 'xyzzy' is the name of the particular variable in the user source code 
> that is not defined.

ah ok, right.  But your suggestion of providing a specific 
w_NameError (maybe just None) and an appropriate assertion in 
OperationError.__init__ still sounds nicer and more generic. 

    holger