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On 01/14/2014 01:38 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

FWIW, I think everyone should place a lot of weight on
Serhiy's comments and suggestions. His reasoning is

clear and compelling. And the thoughts are all soundly

based on extensive experience with the clinic's effect on

the C source code.

One more bit of anecdotal evidence. I suggest that I have easily the most extensive experience with working with Clinic. Serhiy filed his first patch converting to Clinic nine days ago; I've been working on Clinic for about eighteen months, on and off. And I got used to living with the "sprinkling" approach a long long time ago. I no longer ever mistake generated code for handwritten code, and I don't ever modify the generated text. It's basically fine.

This is not to dismiss Serhiy's observations. Nor to say that my experiences will be universal. Nor indeed to suggest that learning to live with Clinic's out as it exists today is a desirable skill. I merely suggest that if we didn't modify the output of Clinic it might be survivable.

Cheers,

/arry

p.s. " You get used to it. I...I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head. Hey, you uh... want a drink?"