[Python-Dev] C++

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou:
>
>> Is this concern still valid? We are in the 2010s now.
>> I'm not saying I want us to put some C++ in the core interpreter, but
>> the portability argument sounds a little old...
>
>   There are still viable platforms which only support subsets of C++.
> IIRC, Android does not support exceptions in C++.

Looks like they'll be getting exceptions "soon":
http://groups.google.com/group/android-ndk/browse_thread/thread/89db67ed1fbf6450/4de3dd6105eb26ce?#4de3dd6105eb26ce

But yeah, thanks for the concrete example, and I'd agree that Python
should compile with -fno-exceptions, for a couple more years at least.