> On 17 Jun 2018, at 11:00, Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have been working on a slightly different PEP to use a new type slot 
> tp_ccalloffset instead the base_function base class. You can see the work in 
> progress here:
> 
> https://github.com/jdemeyer/PEP-ccall
> 
> By creating a new protocol that each class can implement, there is a full 
> decoupling between the features of a class and between the class hierarchy 
> (such coupling was complained about during the PEP 575 discussion). So I got 
> convinced that this is a better approach.
> 
> It also has the advantage that changes can be made more gradually: this PEP 
> changes nothing at all on the Python side, it only changes the CPython 
> implementation. I still think that it would be a good idea to refactor the 
> class hierarchy, but that's now an independent issue.
> 
> Another advantage is that it's more general and easier for existing classes 
> to use the protocol (PEP 575 on the other hand requires subclassing from 
> base_function which may not be compatible with an existing class hierarchy).

This looks interesting. Why did you add a tp_ccalloffset slot to the type with 
the actual information in instances instead of storing the information in a 
slot? 

Ronald

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