A little Py Vs C++

[Jens Mueller]

Don Clugston wrote:
> On 02/11/12 09:07, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> >On 2012-11-01 23:51, Walter Bright wrote:
> >
> >>What about all your feature requests? I think you've made more than
> >>anyone, by a factor of 10 at least!
> >>
> >>:-)
> >>
> >>As for Manu's request
> >>
> >>http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8108
> >>
> >>I've gone over with him why he needs it, and there's no other reasonable
> >>way. He needs it for real code in a real application.
> >
> >This is quite interesting. Manu comes in from basically nowhere and
> >fairly quickly manage to convince Walter to implement at least two
> >feature requests, this one and the SIMD support. I'm not saying that
> >they shouldn't have been implemented.
> 
> He just knows how to convince Walter.
> (Hint: use real-world use cases. Arguments from theoretical computer
> science carry almost no weight with Walter).

I think there are lots of issues in the bug tracker which describe real
use cases. The point is that these are more like bugs whereas Manu's
proposals are more like feature requests.

Jens