[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ian> A test suite seems far more useful to implementors than any guide, > > Of course, test cases can be modified or ignored. I'd agree with you if we > had a test suite that was more strongly cast in stone.
hum. a test suite like that would have to be constructed very carefully. The current CPython testsuite tests quite some things that are obviously implementation details. For example test_itertools.py checks that izip reuses tuples (which means changing them) when the refcount is 1. This is something which does not quite work in an implementation using a different GC :-) Although on the other hand a short poll revealed that the reference manual was not considered to be the most useful source among the PyPy developpers :-) Cheers, Carl Friedrich Bolz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
