=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Roberge?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I need to have the user call Evil.destroy() as Evil >is getting out of scope, it would miss the whole point >of teaching about the natural way scope and namespace >work.
The problem, it seems to me, is that in Python "scope" applies to names, but you're trying to apply it to objects. A name going out of scope shouldn't be assumed to have much of an impact on the object it referred to, and by emphasising too close a link between name and object I think you're more likely to run into trouble later on. As was pointed out upthread, Python isn't C++. (Speaking as someone who's been bitten by a very similar issue due to Java not being C++ either.) -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomež se bera eadward ofdun hlęddre heafdes bęce bump bump bump
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