[Python-Dev] Proposed: The Great Argument Clinic Conversion Derby (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Jan 7 00:53:26 CET 2014

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: >> I agree with Serhiy, but that is probably known at this point. :) > > I agree with Serhiy and you too. Clinic's current output makes C files > more tedious to read, and I'm not really willing to participate in the > "conversion derby" because of that.

My first thought was that this exercise falls into the realm of fixing things which aren't broken.

The gain in introspection now and possible automated improvements later (e.g. if we come up with a faster way to parse arguments it will automatically propagate through the code base) make it worth it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140106/09d1dc82/attachment.html>

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