[Python-3000] Python/C++ question (original) (raw)

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Sun Dec 10 11:54:58 CET 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

However, I was thinking - if you remove all of the ABI-breaking features of C++, such as virtual functions, name mangling, RTTI, exceptions, and so on, its still a pretty nice language compared to C - you still have things like namespaces, constructors/destructors (especially nice for stack-local objects), overloadable type conversion, automatic upcasting/downcasting, references, plus you don't have to keep repeating the word 'struct' everywhere.

To me, the killer feature would be that in C++ you can implement a smart pointer which takes care of incref/decref automatically for 99% of the code. This would be a terrific tool for the extension/core writers.

Giovanni Bajo

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