Stefaan Himpe wrote: > >> No! I was serious. I've spent *ages* trying to find the link to the >> article... if you know it, please share. > > Ok - I thought you were referring to some troll's rant with similar > title. I'm probably way off, but were you referring to the RAII technique? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization
Thanks Stefaan, but although it *sounds* like it should be from the title, that's not the idea I'm talking about. Despite the name, RAII is more about destructor/finalizer methods than initialisation. The blog post I'm looking for is not about finalizers, but about API design: don't make the caller give an explicit second activation call if you don't need to. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
