Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >which more explicitly shows the semantics actually desired. Not that > >"huge" a benefit as far as I can tell. Lisp programmers have gotten > >along fine without it for 40+ years... > > Uh yea. No lisp programmer has ever written a with-* function... ever.
The context was Lisp programmers have gotten along fine without counting on the refcounting GC semantics that sjdevnull advocates Python stay with. GC is supposed to make it look like every object stays around forever, and any finalizer that causes an explicit internal state change in an extant object (like closing a file or socket) is not in the GC spirit to begin with. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
