Rob Williscroft wrote: > Daniel Dittmar wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in > comp.lang.python: > > >>- removing reference counting and relying on garbage collection alone >>will break many Python applications (because they rely on files being >>closed at end of scope etc.) >> > > > They are already broken on at least 2 python implementations, so > why worry about another one.
I guess few applications or libraries are being ported from CPython to Jython or IronPython as each is targeting a different standard library, so this isn't that much of a problem yet. Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
