On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:11 AM, Ooomzay <ooom...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 4 March 2018 03:00:13 UTC, Chris Angelico wrote: >> This thread is dead. The OP wants to wave a magic wand and say >> "__del__ is now guaranteed to be called immediately", > > No "magic" required: Just one line change in the language reference will do > it.
Go ahead and actually implement it. It's not just one line in the language reference. >> without any explanation > > The PEP says it all really: To make the very pythonic RAII idiom available in > python. > >> - and, from the look of things, without any understanding >> - of what that means for the language > > What impact on the _language_ (c.f. interpreter) do you think I have not > understood? > > It is is 100% backwards compatible with the language. It breaks nothing. > > It allows people who want to use the RAII idiom to do so. > > It allows people who want to use the "with" idiom to continue do so. > >> and the interpreters. > > I am well aware of what it will mean for interpreters. For some interpreters > it will have zero impact (e.g. CPython) and for some others it would unlikely > be economic to make them comply. > I don't even understand you now. First off, you just acknowledged that this WILL impact CPython - you're not simply mandating what CPython already does, you're tightening up the rules significantly. For others - what do you even mean, "unlikely be economic to make them comply"? Are you saying that the Jython project should simply die? Or that it should become non-compliant with the Python spec? Huh? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
