In message <pan.2009.06.16.07.34...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au>, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:45:43 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> In message <m2eitowaf2....@cs.uu.nl>, Piet van Oostrum wrote: >> >>> The exact time of the destruction of objects is an implementation >>> detail and should not be relied upon. >> >> That may be true in Java and other corporate-herd-oriented languages, >> but we know that dynamic languages like Perl and Python make heavy use >> of reference-counting wherever they can. If it's easy to satisfy >> yourself that the lifetime of an object will be delimited in this way, I >> don't see why you can't rely upon it. > > Reference counting is an implementation detail used by CPython but not > [implementations built on runtimes designed for corporate-herd-oriented > languages, like] IronPython or Jython. I rest my case. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
