Armin Rigo <ar...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: > But this seems to me like a contrived example: how often in real > code do people pass around these builtins, rather than calling > them directly?
>From experience developing PyPy, every argument that goes "this theoretically >breaks obscure code, but who writes it in that way?" is inherently broken: >there *is* code out there that uses any and all Python strangenesses. The >only trade-offs you can make is in how much existing code you are going to >break -- or make absolutely sure that you don't change semantics in any case. ---------- nosy: +arigo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10399> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
