[Python-Dev] 2.4 news reaches interesting places

[Skip Montanaro]

    Raymond> * Any PR effort should also emphasize that no usability
    Raymond>   trade-offs were made along the way.  A number of features
    Raymond>   make Py2.4 easier to use than 1.5.6: list comps, genexps,
    Raymond>   generators, sets, nested scopes, int/long unification,
    Raymond>   decorators, etc. 

Not to mention which, such beasts aren't commonly available for C.  What
about C++?

I found it interesting that a guy at work wrote a string caching class for
our C++ programmers to use.  He told me he got the idea from Python's int
caching.

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