[Python-Dev] instancemethod_getattro seems to be partially wrong
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Sun Nov 23 22:03:07 EST 2003
> Guido says:
>
> > I guess it's my anti-Scheme attitude. I just think the problem is in
> > the deeply nested structures. There usually is a less nested data
> > structure that doesn't have the problem.
>
> and then he says:
>
> > Well, unclear. Frame chains make sense as chains because they are
> > reference-counted individually.
>
> which surely goes to show that sometimes it *does* make
> sense to use a deeply nested structure?
Well, without deeply nested data structures the stack wouldn't be that
deep, would it? :-)
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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