WHUI! (was Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: C API Macro to decref andset to NULL) (original) (raw)

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Tue Jul 13 17:36:26 CEST 2004


Jeremy Hylton wrote:

I still don't like it, because it hides the return.

It should be used in the core, but you don't have to use it in your own code.

I'd rather do: if (self->foo != NULL && (vret = visit(self->foo, arg))) return vret; This violates the Python C style by putting an assignment in a conditional.

Where is this documented? Assignments in conditionals are used widely in the C sources, including such places as gcmodule.c, object.c, and typeobject.c.

Jim

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