>>>>> Charles Yeomans <[email protected]> (CY) wrote:
>CY> Memory management may be an "implementation detail", but it is >CY> unfortunately one that illustrates the so-called law of leaky >CY> abstractions. So I think that one has to write code that follows the >CY> memory management scheme of whatever language one uses. For code written >CY> for CPython only, as mine is, RAII is an appropriate idiom and not kludgy >CY> at all. Under your assumptions, its use would be wrong, of course. I dare to say that, even in CPython it is doomed to disappear, but we don't know yet on what timescale. -- Piet van Oostrum <[email protected]> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [email protected] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
