Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>: > > > Then this does not count as a leaky abstraction. All you're saying is > > that the ‘id(foo)’ result is a representation of the object identity, > > which is entirely at the level of the abstraction. Nothing is leaked. > > I wasn't making a point about a leaky abstraction.
Can we conclude that you've changed your position on this, then? You now accept that Python's object identity abstraction is not leaky? In the absence of you demonstrating a leak in that abstraction, we can ignore the assertion. -- \ “For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use | `\ being anything else.” —Winston Churchill, 1954-11-09 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list