[pypy-svn] r49938 - pypy/dist/pypy/doc

[arigo at codespeak.net]

Author: arigo
Date: Wed Dec 19 18:01:36 2007
New Revision: 49938

Modified:
   pypy/dist/pypy/doc/geninterp.txt
Log:
This paragraph can stay, with minor fixes to remove _classobj.


Modified: pypy/dist/pypy/doc/geninterp.txt
==============================================================================
--- pypy/dist/pypy/doc/geninterp.txt	(original)
+++ pypy/dist/pypy/doc/geninterp.txt	Wed Dec 19 18:01:36 2007
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@
 .. _`application-level`: coding-guide.html#app-preferable
 .. _exceptions: ../../pypy/lib/_exceptions.py
 
+An example is exceptions_. They are
+needed in a very early phase of bootstrapping StdObjspace, but
+for simplicity, they are written as RPythonic application
+level code. This implies that the interpreter must be quite
+completely initialized to execute this code, which is
+impossible in the early phase, where we have neither
+exceptions implemented nor classes available.
+
 Solution
 ++++++++