[C++-sig] Re: Interest in luabind

[Daniel Wallin]

> Nicodemus wrote:
> > Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
> >
> >> As a user who (finally!) writes mainly new Python code
> I really value
> >> the safe-but-certain approach. If the interpreter
> crashes somewhere deep
> >> down in the application without printing a backtrace it
> is often very
> >> frustrating and time-consuming to isolate the problem
> by adding print
> >> statements. In a large-scale application it is crucial
> that all
> >> components are rock-solid.
> >> Ralf
> >>
> >
> > We use Boost.Python at our company developing large
> applications, and I
> > agree with Ralf.
> > Plus, I believe it is against Python philosophy to get a
> core dump,
> > since Python itself goes great lenghts to prevent
> explicit memory
> > management by the user.
>
> I concur. Anything that has gone wrong with my Python
> programs so far
> has always resulted in a nice and clear exception with a
> traceback. If
> only that would have been the case in C++... :P Great
> libraries like the
> STL and Boost alleviate the pain though.

I agree, I said core dump is just as good as silent errors
because I was under the impression that BPL copied objects
by default.

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Daniel Wallin