On 16.12.15 16:12, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
Please put your vote (a floating number from -1 to 1 including) for
every of proposed name. You also can propose new name.
Thank you all for your votes.
Results of the poll:
Py_SETREF: +5 = +5 (Victor, Steve, Yury, Brett, Nick) +0 (Ryan, Martin)
Py_REPLACE_REF: +2.5 = +2.5 (Ryan, Victor, Steve, Martin) -0 (Nick)
Py_REPLACE: +0 = +1 (Martin) -1 (Ryan) +0 (Nick)
Py_RESET: 0 = +1 (Ryan) -1 (Martin)
Py_DECREF_REPLACE: -2 = +1 (Ryan, Martin) -3 (Victor, Steve, Nick)
Py_SET_POINTER, Py_SET_ATTR: -5 (Ryan, Victor, Steve, Martin, Nick)
Therefore Py_SETREF is the winner.
But I want also to remember objections against it formulated in previous
discussion.
1) By analogy with Py_INCREF and Py_DECREF that increment and decrement
the reference counter of the object, Py_SETREF looks as it *sets* the
reference counter of the object.
2) By analogy with PyList_SET_ITEM, PyTuple_SET_ITEM, PyCell_SET, etc,
it is not expected that Py_SETREF decrement the refcounter of the old
value before overwriting it.
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