Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > [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 :-) True, but the choice is between abandoning it or updating it.
I would vote for the latter. Colin W. > > Cheers, > > Carl Friedrich Bolz > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
