On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5 June 2014 22:47, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> To make sure I understand correctly, you're suggesting something like >> adding a new set of special method slots, __te_add__, __te_mul__, >> etc. > > I wasn't thinking in that much detail, TBH. I'm not sure adding a > whole set of new slots is sensible for such a specialised case. I > think I was more assuming that the special method implementations > could use an alternative calling convention, METH_STACK in place of > METH_VARARGS, for example. That would likely only be viable for types > implemented in C. > > But either way, it may be more complicated than the advantages would > justify...
Oh, I see, that's clever. But, unfortunately most __special__ methods at the C level don't use METH_*, they just have hard-coded calling conventions: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/typeobj.html#number-structs -- Nathaniel J. Smith Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh http://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
