Stefan Krah added the comment: I second Antoine's request for a PEP. I'm not only concerned about the DSL:
This approach may work for modules like posixmodule.c, where each function is largely a self-contained unit wrapping some API function. On the other hand, I don't want to imagine how _decimal.c will look like: There are > 100 functions that are closely related. Many of those functions are *already* generated by macros. I think that vertical space is a precious resource, so all docstrings (cruft as far as understanding the program is concerned) are in a header file. The clinic.py preprocessor would add at least 3000 lines to an already large module, tearing apart groups of functions that form logical units. Apologies for sounding negative, but IIRC this hasn't been brought up in the python-dev discussion at all. ---------- nosy: +skrah _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16612> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
