Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Julian Taylor wrote: >> tp_can_elide receives two objects and returns one of three values: >> * can work inplace, operation is associative >> * can work inplace but not associative >> * cannot work inplace > > Does it really need to be that complicated? Isn't it > sufficient just to ask the object potentially being > overwritten whether it's okay to overwrite it?
How can it know this without help from the interpreter? Sturla _______________________________________________ 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
