[Python-3000] Python/C++ question

[Giovanni Bajo]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> However, I was thinking - if you remove all of the ABI-breaking features 
>> of C++, such as virtual functions, name mangling, RTTI, exceptions, and 
>> so on, its still a pretty nice language compared to C - you still have 
>> things like namespaces, constructors/destructors (especially nice for 
>> stack-local objects), overloadable type conversion, automatic 
>> upcasting/downcasting, references, plus you don't have to keep repeating 
>> the word 'struct' everywhere.

To me, the killer feature would be that in C++ you can implement a smart 
pointer which takes care of incref/decref automatically for 99% of the code. 
This would be a terrific tool for the extension/core writers.
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Giovanni Bajo