On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > C does not natively provide garbage collection, or exceptions, or many > other features. But that doesn't make it *impossible* to use these > features in C, it just makes them *inconvenient and difficult*. To get > the advantage of such features, you have to build a framework that > provides them, then exclusively use the framework, while avoiding > dropping down into the underlying low-level C features that bypass the > framework. This is inconvenient, error-prone, inelegant, and requires > discipline, but it is *possible*.
Provably possible, by the Sir Ruthven method[1]: libnih, as used by Upstart and other systems, is a garbage-collected (refcounted, I think) C memory allocation library. I believe I mentioned this earlier in one of these threads. > For anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about when I talk about > biscuit joiners: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit_joiner As one of the "anyone", I thank you :) ChrisA [1] See Ruddigore, where Sir Ruthven claims to have forged his own will; his uncle claims it's not possible, which Sir R disproves by saying that he's already done so. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
