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On 01/16/2014 11:36 AM, Guido van
Rossum wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Yury Selivanov wrote:If we keep it strictly declarative, then, at least, we�ll have this possibility in the future.Sounds like a pretty unlikely scenario. Why would you implement clinic in C?
We'll never reimplement Argument Clinic in C.� I could list many reasons for this.� Suffice to say, I'm not doing it, and I doubt anyone else would ever step up to the plate and try it.
And, "form follows function".� It's a bad idea to limit Argument Clinic's features today based on what might be inconvenient someday in some hypothetical rewrite in C.� Argument Clinic should be maximally useful, right now.
/arry