with all the talk about enhancing exceptions and removing unnecessary functions from the codebase, i think we can also drop PyErr_NormalizeException and friends.
after all, since string exceptions are out, BDFL has mentioned he prefered "raise Foo()" instead of "raise Foo" [1], and since the traceback will be stored inside the exception *instance* -- there's no more need for normalization. we can either drop the "raise TYPE" version for "raise TYPE()", or have the raise opcode instantiate TYPE internally [2]. personally i like omitting the parenthesis when there's no arguments to be passed, i.e. "raise EOFError", but i could live with typing two extra characters. -tomer [1] pep 317 and http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-August/055665.html [2] on a side note, java et al use "throw new FooException();". i know this doesn't mean much, but still, exceptions are ultimately instances. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
