ANN: PyStream - a C++ stream emulation

Rainer Deyke root at rainerdeyke.com
Wed Aug 23 01:19:52 EDT 2000


"Grant Griffin" <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote in message
news:39A2EF6E.D21B7E35 at seebelow.org...
> Given that 1.6 and 2.0 are virtually 100.0% backward compatible, how do
> these new constructs actually hurt anybody?  If anything, aren't the
> programs that _use_ the new constructs--not the new interpreter that
> provides them--the problem?  (But I'll bet you a dollar you won't write
> "x = x + 1" very often once you've got "x += 1". ;-)

Larger executable.  More difficult to provide alternate implementations.


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