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[Python-Dev] Overwriting objects before deallocating them

[Python-Dev] Overwriting objects before deallocating them [Python-Dev] Overwriting objects before deallocating themGuido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 24 May 2002 12:38:14 -0400
> Is it worth trying to slowly fix it?  Picking a preferred name and
> making the interpreter's code use it consistently would be a start.

We're doing our best: new/del (and case variants) are now recommended
everywhere.  It's still a mess because 'del' just means 'free', and
'new' mostly just means 'alloc', but because of the large amount of
existing code using these conventions I don't want to try to migrate
to something new.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)




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