[Python-Dev] PEP 286: Please comment (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:38:57 +0100

On dinsdag, maart 12, 2002, at 10:09 , Martin v. Loewis wrote:

I put PEP 286, "Enhanced Argument Tuples", on

http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0286.html

I'm +1 on the idea (of course:-), but there's a couple of things I miss in the PEP: - I assume 'failobjects' are deallocated on failure, not success, yes? - I miss a rationale (some use cases would be nice) - it's nowhere explained how the ...Memory() calls would be implemented. - Would the interpreter mainloop always create argument tuples where it now uses normal tuples? Is this a method flag? What's the cost of conversion (or of using ArgumentTuples in stead of tuples in general)? Issues with apply()? - What would happen to calls that still use normal tuples? There's a lot of callback code out there...