#1416: Unreasonably painful to add a method to all *Array PMCs
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Reporter: japhb | Owner:
Type: RFC | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: core | Version: 2.0.0
Severity: medium | Keywords: Array method
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Comment(by kurahaupo):
This is by no means the only problem we have with the various array types,
as detailed in [wiki:ArrayTasklist].
Unfortunately I don't think "one common ancestor" is the the best answer.
The problem is that what we regard as "Array" is in fact a combination of
several different features. IMHO what's needed isn't *one* root type, but
a number of them:
* Orderable (iterable, reversible)
* Indexable read
* Indexable write
* Deque (push, pop, shift, unshift)
* Tuple (fixed-sized, equivalent to a List)
However we could use this ticket as an opportunity to implement a more
general refactoring.
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