On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Brett Cannon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 00:02, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It would sound more useful to have a generic Py_RETURN() macro rather than
>> some specific forms for each and every common object.
>
> Since the macro is rather generic, sure, but the name should probably be
> better since it doesn't necessarily convene the fact that a INCREF has
> occurred. So maybe Py_INCREF_RETURN()?

Aside from None and NotImplemented, do we really do the straight
incref-and-return all that often?

While I was initially attracted to the idea of a generic macro, the
more I thought about it, the more it seemed like a magnet for
reference leak bugs.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   [email protected]   |   Brisbane, Australia
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