[Python-Dev] Re: PEP-317

[Steven Taschuk]

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?

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Steven Taschuk                             staschuk@telusplanet.net
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