Nick Coghlan wrote: > Declaring that none of the AST node creation methods steal references would > be > consistent with most of the existing C API (e.g. PySequence_SetItem, > PySequence_Tuple, PySequence_List),
Agreed, although the rest of your proposal (while admirably cunning) requires that ast-building functions effectively return borrowed references, which is not usual Thats' not to say it shouldn't be done, but it does differ from the usual conventions, and that would need to be kept in mind. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
