__del__ problem - would adopting Garbage Collection fix this?

[Just van Rossum]

At 12:37 AM -0600 20-04-2000, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 08:35:13AM +0100, Just van Rossum wrote:
>> Maybe you're right, but to me it feels this is in the exact
>> same category as a __del__ exception, so ignoring & collecting
>> seems more logical to me as a default.
>
>It shouldn't be hard to change.  I will wait until I get some
>more feedback though.

Sure, I don't expect you to take my word for it ;-)

There's an additional argument, though: symmetry with JPython.

Just